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They said they were not, however, looking forward to the keynote Commencement speaker that afternoon, Dr. Harold E. Varmus...
Your gratuitous insults of this distinguished scientist (1996 Commencement Speaker Dr. Harold E. Varmus) were unfair as well as undeserved. As you must have known, but apparently chose to ignore, Varmus is a past winner of the Lasker Prize, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1989. As the Post put it so well, he is an internationally recognized expert on the genetics of cancer. In recognition of his research abilities, as well as his ability to lead and administer, President Clinton chose him to direct the National Institues of Health...
...Harold Varmus is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Amherst College, Class of 1961, where he majored in English. He was also the editor of your counterpart, the Amherst Student...
...Varmus, who is today's commencement speaker, is internationally recognized for his research on retroviruses and the genetic basis of cancer...
Currently, Varmus is the director of the National Institutes of Health...