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The Most Hated Professor in America

By THOMAS BARTLETT

If you call Columbia University's main switchboard and ask for Nicholas De Genova, you will not be connected to his office. Instead, you will hear a recording of a statement by the university's president, Lee C. Bollinger, saying he is "appalled" by the anthropology professor's "outrageous comments."

When a reporter calls back and says...

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