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Randall A. Fine '96, accused earlier this week of bribing students in return for votes, said yesterday that he was the victim of a smear campaign to prevent him from winning a Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Club election...
...might be a false accusation on Randy, but the motive of it couldn't have been a smear campaign," Michael said. "If he thinks that that is the motive, then it is illogical...
...smear campaign would be to smear someone who has a position of power," said Michael. "Randy had the lowest position of power. He had really no chance...
Mansfield's statement amounts to a smear of a first-rate community of both women and Black scholars at Harvard--scholars like Helen Vendler, Susan Pharr, Barbara Johnson, Sara Lightfoot, Susan Suleiman, Elaine Scarry, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Preston Williams, Anthony Appiah, Christopher Edley, Charles Willie, Orlando Patterson, to name just a few. Mansfield ought to apologize. Martin L. Kilson Professor of Government
...merely eccentric to the downright bizarre seems to be only half a step for Ross Perot. The populist billionaire last week came up with a new explanation for why he had abandoned his initial presidential campaign on July 16: he wanted to save his daughter Carolyn from a smear. Seems he got wind from three sources -- two unnamed, one a frequent promoter of conspiracy theories -- of a Republican plot to portray his daughter as a lesbian by circulating a doctored photograph, then to "disrupt" her Aug. 23 wedding by means unspecified. By Oct. 1, with Carolyn married, Perot presumably figured...