Word: metullus
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Club officials apparently hoped to praise staff members Mario Metullus and Herbert Campbell for rummaging through a dumpster to retrieve a member’s wayward piece of jewelry (which better have been the Hope Diamond). But in an ill-conceived posting on the club’s website, somebody who should have known better placed the heading, “Dumpster Diving,” over a picture of the two conspicuously African American employees...
After Gawker.com, the New York gossip rag with a peculiar Harvard fetish, noted the irony in a posting last week, the club removed Metullus and Campbell’s photo, leaving just the harebrained headline (alliteration is indeed hard to resist) and a brief note of thanks...
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