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Article: Being Lee Bollinger: The very model of a modern college president.
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- National Review
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- October 14, 2002
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Lee Bollinger, the recently installed president of Columbia University, is used to praise. Newsweek labeled him an exemplar of a "new, visionary breed of college presidents." In The New Yorker, Nicholas Lemann wrote that "if you were called upon to invent a perfect university president, you couldn't do better" than Bollinger. And in an article entitled "A Renaissance Man at Columbia's Helm," the Christian Science Monitor cooed that beneath the college president's "gentle voice and unassuming manner lies a powerful legal counterpuncher."
Why all the approbation? There are two reasons. The first is that Bollinger is a capable administrator. For example, when he ...