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...believe Ms. Helmsley is charged in the indictment with being a tough bitch." --Gerald Feffer, unsuccessfully defending hotelier Leona Helmsley in her 1989 tax-evasion trial...
...room CCII (make that 202) of Martin Luther King Latin Grammar Middle School in Kansas City, Missouri, Ms. Dickerson's rhetoric students are engaged in a public-speaking contest. Sixth-grader Jo Ann Carter, dressed in the school uniform of white blouse and plaid skirt, has chosen a speech by the school's eponym: "If something isn't done, and in a hurry, to bring the colored peoples of the world out of their long years of poverty, their long years of hurt and neglect," she declaims forcefully, "the whole world is doomed...
...tone of Stephanie B. Russek's open letter to Dean Harry R. Lewis '68 ("Dean Lewis Should Respond Positively to Students," April 9, 1996) is so disrespectful it borders on the scandalous. I will not even try to refute Ms. Russek's specious argumentation for changing the term "freshman" to "first-year," though her lack of rigor is alarming, I am much more shocked by her vicious personal attack on Dean Lewis...
...Ms. Russek accuses Dean Lewis of disrespecting and disregarding the entire student body, of insulting the Harvard undergraduate woman who was attacked recently, of encouraging sexism at Harvard, of having weak and crude character and ethics and of being ineffective and incompetent...
This sort of diatribe is unacceptable. Ms. Russek's is not Dean Lewis's employer, as she tries to let on ("Without us at Harvard, you would be unemployed."). She is a sophomore who is dishonest and unfair in her arguments, and who has publicly insulted a dean. She should write an apology to Dean Lewis and try to work on her writing, her manners and her humility. --Julian Allen...