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...commentary on the competitive atmosphere at Harvard and the general situation of pre-meds in this country that a person as apparently qualified as Steve Rosenfeld should have felt compelled to forge letters of recommendation...
...more serious is the allegation of tampering with the experiment. If Rosenfeld is indeed guilty--and this would have to be proved by more than mere circumstantial evidence--then he has inhibited the progress of cancer research by wasting the valuable time and grant money of the two scientists involved. Susie Goldman...
...Harvard biochemist who shared the Nobel Prize for helping to decipher the structure of the genetic material DNA. Since April, however, attempts by Dressler's group to duplicate the results have been unsuccessful, raising doubts among scientists about the experiments. In the light of the revelations about Rosenfeld, the April cutoff date seems significant; it suggests to some researchers that news of last spring's fake research scandal at Manhattan's Sloan Kettering Institute (TIME, April 29) may have given pause to anyone tampering with the Harvard experiments...
...irony of the affair is that Rosenfeld, the son of a Lancaster, Pa., rabbi and a straight-A student, did not have to falsify either experiments or documents to guarantee his future. Dressier says that he would have been admitted to any medical school in the country just on the basis of his grades...
...book for fear the Hollywood version would be, well, too Hollywood. They were right. The first draft of Writer William Goldman's script was excellent in parts, but generally superficial. "It read like a Henny Youngman joke-book of one-liners," Bernstein complained to a friend. "Harry Rosenfeld [Post metropolitan editor] came out looking like Phil Silvers, and Ben Bradlee became Walter Pidgeon. It was just too shallow." So Bernstein and Esquire Contributing Editor Nora Ephron, his sometime roommate, have rewritten large chunks of the script...