#1. Adding Insult to Introduction
College presidents generally don't slam their guest speakers, but when
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accepted an invitation to speak at
Columbia University, critics excoriated the school for giving a dictator
such a lofty platform. But instead of rescinding the invite, Columbia
president Lee Bollinger introduced Ahmadinejad by noting that Mahmoud
resembles a "petty and cruel dictator" and that his denial of the Holocaust
is "ridiculous." Bollinger's remarks outraged chancellors of Iranian
universities, one of whom said, "Insult, in a scholarly atmosphere, to the
president of a country...is deeply shameful." Many in the U.S. agreed.
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