Word: lemann
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...calling people from big cities "slick" I did not intend to praise them. Nicholas Lemann...
Perhaps since I come from Albany New York. I am not stick and worldy wise enough to understand the fine distinctions Mr. Lemann drew in his column. "Blurred Distinctions" However, drawing my unsophisticated courage together. I beg to question the views of the president of The Crimson...
...Lemann's statements that some of our people "did some things they shouldn't have done," and that "the people who ran it seem to have gotten something more out of it" as well as his conclusion that these people "are in trouble" are merely his unsupported opinions. Neither the IRC Board of Directors nor the University has said anything of the sort, and I do not expect them...
...what does Mr. Lemann base these charges? Perhaps on his two quotes out of context from an internal report that the IRC Board of Directors has not yet approved? And where does the figure of $5000 "for their Harvard undergraduate staff" come from? The figures The Crimson has so far published do not add up to that sum, nor do the Harvard Model United Nations books support such a statement unless one in unscrupulous enough to include in this figure such items as speakers" travel expenses, the costs of the faculty receptions, cash refunds to high schools who overpaid their...
...perhaps symptomatic that the purportedly factual portion of Mr. Lemann's phillipic that he began it with a factual error, i.e., he gave the wrong date for the dinner at Joseph...