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DIED. MIKE MANSFIELD, 98, low-key but resolute Montana Democrat and longtime Senate majority leader; in Washington. A high school dropout and "mucker" of mines in Butte, Mansfield got his college degree at the urging of his wife Maureen and went on to a five-decade political career, including 24 years in the U.S. Senate. He changed that institution, encouraging everyone, especially junior Senators, to speak out. At the end of World War II, as a junior Congressman, he advised Truman to allow Japan to keep its Emperor when the country surrendered. At his retirement from the Senate, he served...
...Mansfield told The Crimson yesterday that, after having forwarded Lewis’ e-mail to the Globe, he asked the Globe’s reporter last week not to publish it. According to Mansfield, the reporter “never got back...
Knowles declined to comment on Lewis’ claim to Mansfield that “the humanities are in trouble in terms of their ability to call one thing better than another with any consistency and confidence.” Knowles said that there could be many reasons—such as smaller courses and fewer written tests—behind the higher average grades that are given in humanities courses than in the sciences...
Lewis said yesterday that his Feb. 12 e-mail was a “collegial” attempt to persuade Mansfield to abandon his theory of grade inflation. His rhetoric was “uncharacteristic of policy declarations by deans” and was therefore taken out of context by the Globe, Lewis wrote in an e-mail...
...official action will be taken against Mansfield for leaking Lewis’ e-mail, Knowles said...