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...your article on my Wall Street Journal op-ed piece, you say "Thernstrom could not be reached for comment" ("Article Sets Off Angry Response at HLS" December 1). Since your reporter didn't bother to pick up the phone, of course she could not "reach" me; had she tried, should would have had an easy time doing...
...Thernstrom, author of Whose Votes Count: Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights wrote in part that, "In an affirmative action setting, white signifies 'competence' while Black denotes 'needs help.' "As a result, she wrote, "not even the most correct among the politically correct, faced with assigning editorial work to an untested Black student, can be totally sure that student will...
...Journal piece, Thernstrom also wrotethat the Law School fosters "a poisonous politicalatmosphere that is dominated by angry radicals...
Both prominent liberal and conservative lawprofessors attacked Thernstrom's characterizationof the Law School in two additional letters to theJournal...
...Thernstrom could not be reached for commentyesterday...