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This Scrutiny is about professors who have gotten into some deep shit. But one of our subjects, Monrad Professor of Economics Martin L. Weitzman, easily justifies our use of naughty language; in April 2005, he allegedly stole $600 worth of manure from a Rockport, Mass. farm, supposedly to use as fertilizer. His August 2005 settlement with the Gloucester district court allowed him to dodge an admission of guilt, but The Crimson reported that Charles L. “Charlie” Lane Sr., the 98-year-old farmer, purportedly caught Weitzman red-handed (brown-handed?) in the middle...
...results support and confirm our contention that a comprehensive environmental program is really what will benefit colleges, the communities around them, and the young people within them,” said Elissa R. Weitzman, the co-principal investigator and director of the AMOD evaluation...
...realize the extent to which this ‘Harvard’ thing [has] a lot of baggage attached,” Weitzman noted. “I don’t really understand what the hullabaloo was about...
...Weitzman described the $600 compensation as “way inflated” for a product he said many farmers pay to have taken away, and said he couldn’t fathom how Lane reached such an estimate...
...trial yielded a positive externality for the professor, it is that Weitzman won’t have to pony up in the future—he said that since the story started getting such attention, he has received several offers for free manure...