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...behalf of the Harvard-Radcliffe Society for Lebanese Affairs (HRSLA), I would like to thank the reporters of The Crimson and its editorial staff for covering Dr. Wadi Haddad's lecture on April 23rd. It is nonetheless with great pain and frustration that I feel compelled to make some corrections to the sloppy reporting of the reporter who covered the lecture for The Crimson. The reporter's mistakes are unprofessional and the damage she caused is irreparable. She misrepresented the spirit and distorted the letter of Dr. Haddad's speech by misinterpreting and misquoting...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Society for Lebanese Affairs sponsored Haddad's speech. The student group exists "to keep Lebanon in the hearts and minds of people here," a spokesman for the society said...
...Haddad said the need for the U.S. to take an active interest in Lebanon is greater today than it ever has been before because "Lebanon is fighting now for sovereignty...
According to Haddad, that fight has caused cracks in what he called Lebanon's "thin veneer of civilization...
Referring to the attack on U.S. marines stationed in Beirut, Haddad said "the Lebanese fiasco" cost the U.S. credibility in the Middle East because Americans overestimated their military efficacy in the convoluted world of Middle Eastern politics...