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Profile In Cowardice by: Deborah Lambert, February 15, 2008 In a recent column at mindingthecampus.com, author and commentator John Leo noted that although former Harvard president Larry Summers was given the boot by leftist profs for telling "unwelcome truths," Duke University president Richard Brodhead would apparently not suffer the same fate after the Duke “non-rape” case. Leo’s column reviewed Brodhead's actions, including his firing of the lacrosse coach without “finding that the coach had done anything wrong,” and his refusal “to look at the overwhelming evidence, offered to him by defense counsel, that the boys were innocent.” “When racist black...

Having lost one grandson (I hope temporarily – only until he matures) to the hate-America, leftist crowd of college professors who brain-washed him into thinking his country is the worst place in the world to live, I hope I was able to reach his younger brother who is starting college next fall. This younger grandson, Phil, seems more level-headed and normal. He plays basketball for his main hobby unlike his older brother, who is more inclined to the arts.