The Chronicle of Higher Education

Speech Puts President of Columbia U. Back in the Eye of a Storm

By ROBIN WILSON

Lee C. Bollinger had the kind of week few university presidents ever do. By inviting the president of Iran to speak at Columbia University, and then delivering a blistering critique of the leader's record as he sat just 30 feet away, Mr. Bollinger brought attention to the bully pulpit of the university presidency...

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