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...festival comes just a month after the First Lady’s latest writing symposium. A librarian and schoolteacher, Laura Bush has thrown her energy behind infusing the White House with some literary culture, and has held symposiums on Mark Twain, the Harlem Renaissance and writers in the American West??all of which drew literature experts and enthusiasts alike. Needless to say, the President attended as well...
...episode’s plot bore an uncanny resemblance to the West-Summers incident last spring that resulted in West??s departure for Princeton...
...real-life scenario, West??who also keeps a goatee and afro, and who released a “spoken word” CD last November—left an October meeting with Summers alleging he had “disrespected” him by calling into question the quality of his work...
...friend of Cornel West??s but I doubt very much that I’m the conservative he was referring to,” he said...
According to the Boston Globe, which first reported the speech, West said that in an October 2001 meeting, Summers questioned his scholarship, asked to monitor his research and requested West??s course records to check for grade inflation...