Word: morgane
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...Morgan, a staff writer at The Harvard Crimson, said that the threat came during an interview for the What Is to Be Done?, The Crimson's weekly magazine. According to Morgan, Jeffries--who has been charged with making anti-semitic remarks in the past--demanded Morgan's tapes and issued the threat when he learned that many of The Crimson's top editors are Jewish...
...Morgan is Jewish, but said that Jeffries did not know his religious affiliation during the interview...
Earlier in that interview, Morgan has claimed, Jeffries called Henry Louis Gates, the chair of Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department, a "punk" and a "faggot." Jeffries confiscated the tapes containing those statements and threatened to kill Morgan if he used the quotes in his story, Morgan said...
...Morgan appeared on television and radio shows in New York yesterday, and the story appeared prominently in many newspapers across the country. The incident also garnered a full front-page headline in The New York Post...
...Morgan said he originally told Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz about the interview. The press learned of the incident after Dershowitz alluded to Morgan's story during a public appearance in New York, accord- ing to several reports...