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...Financial Aid, Which voted April 3 to revoke Grant's admission after learning that she had killed her mother in 1990, told The Crimson last week that she had said her mother died in an auto accident when asked in a formal alumni interview how she became an orphan...
...Crimson first reported yesterday that two sources had confirmed Grant's attribution of her mother's death to an automobile accident after being asked by an interviewer how she became an orphan...
...sense it's denial. I can see how beingan orphan, people might say, 'What happened toyour parents?" he said. "This may be her way ofsatisfying people without being rude or going intopersonal details. All of us have convenient whitelies we use to lubricate the wheels of socialinteraction...
...classic definition of chutzpah is someonewho kills their parents and pleads for mercy onthe grounds that she is an orphan," the professoradded. "She may have been rejected on the groundsof chutzpah...
...information, in their minds,undermined her claim to be distinguished by beingan orphan, when in fact the circumstances she hadto overcome were even more difficult" than thoseof other applicants with difficult backgrounds,the source said...