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Paula Broadwell fell short of aims at Harvard
Boston Globe ^ | 15 November 2012 | Callum Borchers, Tracy Jan and Bryan Bender

Posted on 11/15/2012 11:07:29 AM PST by Fractal Trader

Paula Broadwell, the biographer with whom former CIA ­director David Petraeus had an extramarital affair, abandoned her bid for a doctorate from Harvard in 2007, failing to advance to PhD candidacy after four semesters at the Kennedy School of Government, and now faces the prospect of an ethical review at King’s College London, where she has resumed pursuit of a doctorate.

The revelations about her mixed academic record add to the portrait of a principal figure in the Petraeus scandal who has refused to respond to multiple Globe requests for comment and hasn’t spoken publicly since disclosure of her relationship with Petraeus and his resignation as CIA chief.

Broadwell left Harvard with a lesser diploma in 2008, a master of public administration, after one additional semester.

She enrolled later that year as a PhD student in the war studies department of King’s College London, where her military leadership research focused largely on Petraeus, according to Broadwell’s profile on the school website. But four years on, Broadwell remains far from earning her degree, according to the department chairman, and her relationship with the subject of her research could jeopardize her progress toward a doctorate.

“We have a very stringent ethical review process,” said Mervyn Frost, head of the war studies department. “We found nothing wrong with her original proposal, but in light of what’s happened now, I suspect we’ll revisit that process.”

One of Broadwell’s former professors at Harvard described her as a self-promoter who would routinely show up at office hours.

“It was very much, ‘I’m here and you’re going to know I’m here,’ ” said the professor, who did not want to be identified because of the sensitivity of ongoing investigations.

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Interesting quote:

"She was not someone you would think of as a critical thinker. I don’t remember anything about her as a student. I remember her as a personality."

1 posted on 11/15/2012 11:07:32 AM PST by Fractal Trader
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To: MestaMachine

ping


2 posted on 11/15/2012 11:07:59 AM PST by Fractal Trader
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To: Fractal Trader

Did she claim to be Cherokee?


3 posted on 11/15/2012 11:15:58 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Fractal Trader

So after one week we know more about Paula Broadwell than we know about President Obama after four years. Something ain’t right here. (I know, just pointin’ out the obvious...)


4 posted on 11/15/2012 11:16:32 AM PST by JoeDetweiler
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To: Fractal Trader

I wonder if Obama fell short...


5 posted on 11/15/2012 11:16:37 AM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: Fractal Trader
“It was very much, ‘I’m here and you’re going to know I’m here,’ ”

Oh, I'm sure they're all VERRRRRY shocked at that, those academics, you know? I mean....NO ONE does THAT..!!!

Hahhahahahhahahahah..!

Just wow..!

6 posted on 11/15/2012 11:16:51 AM PST by gaijin
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To: Fractal Trader

She should have used the Fauxcahantas Warren dodge and said that she was an Indian. That ploy seemed to work well for at least one white woman with an over inflated opinion of herself.


7 posted on 11/15/2012 11:18:16 AM PST by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: Fractal Trader

Joe Plumberization machine now passing the Millenium Falcon, it seems...?

HOW MANY days did it take the FBI to get to Bengazi..? TWENTY THREE DAYS...?

Wow...


8 posted on 11/15/2012 11:20:08 AM PST by gaijin
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To: Fractal Trader

“She was not someone you would think of as a critical thinker.”

“She basically had no appreciation or understanding of Marxist-Leninist economic or social theory, and as for her comprehension of American and Western neo-colonialist opression of emerging and indigenous peoples, well...”


9 posted on 11/15/2012 11:21:14 AM PST by procrustes (You make Free Republic look bad!)
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To: Fractal Trader
Sounds like Obama. The appearance of accomplishment, but nothing there. She was probably hired by Chicago some time ago.
10 posted on 11/15/2012 11:22:50 AM PST by throwback (The object of opening the mind, is as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.)
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To: Fractal Trader

She’s doesn’t spend much time at home.


11 posted on 11/15/2012 11:28:23 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Fractal Trader

It’s interesting that it’s all ways the woman’s fault when a man strays. So because she is clearly attractive and telegenic, she must be characterized as a pushy sl^t, not bright, academically challenged. Some how it’s her fault that the General couldn’t keep the little general in the barracks!


12 posted on 11/15/2012 11:31:21 AM PST by qman (The communist usurper must go!)
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To: Fractal Trader

Is P.B.’s harvard grades public information???


13 posted on 11/15/2012 11:45:54 AM PST by Leep (Are you smarter than a 7th grade math student and or Barack 0bama?)
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To: massgopguy

Well, she does have high cheekbones.

What about Benghazi? Move along. Nothing to see here.


14 posted on 11/15/2012 11:48:10 AM PST by cizinec ("Brother, your best friend ain't your Momma, it's the Field Artillery.")
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To: gaijin; Fractal Trader; procrustes

Actually, she does sound like she might have been somewhat conservative or at least patriotic, so I guess that would definitely not qualify her as a “deep thinker.”

But she’s going to be trashed in a big way now and will probably end up in jail, because I think she, rather than Petraeus, is going to be picked as the one to be blamed for everything. That is, not only the affair, but the entire state of Afghanistan, the Middle East, etc.

Her father said that it was not about the affair but about something else, and I think he probably knew what he was talking about.

Also, I wonder if in the course of her research and interviews, she came across things that might make the regime feel uncomfortable and possibly even exposed.


15 posted on 11/15/2012 12:01:31 PM PST by livius
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To: Fractal Trader

You know, I don’t think I’ve seen the question asked that, if she’s a biographer, why did she need another writer’s help, enough so that the other writer got credit on the book’s cover.

Maybe she WAS a plant.
I have no idea, but it’s worth asking.

Cheers,
Jim


16 posted on 11/15/2012 12:06:35 PM PST by gymbeau (Free USA!)
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To: Fractal Trader

“One of Broadwell’s former professors at Harvard described her as a self-promoter who would routinely show up at office hours.”

And I bet that fed the ego of the professor very well. I have never seen one of them that didn’t appreciate their students’ attention or adulation.

Pretty common in the academic world...


17 posted on 11/15/2012 12:19:20 PM PST by BlessingsofLiberty (Remember Brian Terry...)
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To: Fractal Trader

This is a joke of an article. Apart from adultery, she has a great resume. The fact that a couple of Harvard professors did not like her is, if anything, a plus.


18 posted on 11/15/2012 12:36:24 PM PST by Stingray51
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To: Moonman62

“She’s doesn’t spend much time at home.”

Was thinking that after learning about her accomplishments and endeavors vis-a-vis her home in Charlotte, NC. Even with modern telecommuting that’s a lot of ground to cover and still manage to raise two young boys.


19 posted on 11/15/2012 12:42:52 PM PST by mkboyce
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To: Fractal Trader
Broadwell left Harvard with a lesser diploma in 2008, a master of public administration

If she applied herself more she could have gotten that much desired degree in Public Misadministration.

20 posted on 11/15/2012 12:52:54 PM PST by Uncle Chip
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