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...October 2 issue of The Crimson contains a story on Melanie Thernstrom's book about the Dunster House murder-suicide, Halfway Heaven. In passing, the article repeats a charge made in a much earlier Crimson article, to the effect that as a reporter Thernstrom used her position as a (former) Harvard instructor to gain access to confidential information...
This relates to an effort to discredit the original New Yorker story, which involved baseless allegations which were immediately withdrawn, all of which are discussed in Thernstrom's book...
...Crimson thought there was anything to this allegation, the very least the reporter could have done is ask Thernstrom about it during the question and answer period at the reading, where the reporter was present. This was never done...
...Thernstrom said her visit to the family yielded very little answers; the family's confusion and ignorance of the facts of the incident became another baffling part of situation...
Particularly moving was Thernstrom's reading of a five-page letter Tadesse wrote in which she described her frustration and sense of alienation more than a year before the tragedy...