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Plain DealerIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech angers Norma Lerner -- Mike McIntyre's Tipoff
Monday, October 01, 2007
Michael K. McIntyre
Plain Dealer Columnist
The Lerner family was disappointed and embarrassed that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was invited to speak last week on the campus of Columbia University in a building named after the family patriarch, Alfred Lerner.
Norma Lerner, widow of the late MBNA chairman and Browns owner, fired off a letter signed "Norma Lerner and Family" to Columbia President Lee Bollinger expressing the family's displeasure on the day Ahmadinejad, a man who has denied the Holocaust, was to speak. "I have the sense that you'll read my letter less because of our personal familiarity and more so because of the giving that my husband and I have extended to Columbia over the years," she wrote.
In other words: Money is talking. You might want to listen.
She said the decision to allow Ahmadinejad to speak at Alfred Lerner Hall was "hurtful," despite Bollinger's contention that opening the public forum to "ideas we deplore" is essential to the American idea of free speech...
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,256944,00.html?sPage=fnc.politics/youdecide2008ORANGEBURG, S.C. — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Monday called Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a "madman" and raised the possibility that he could be assassinated by foes within his country.
"Ahmadinejad, the madman, is in competition with mullahs and ayatollahs who think he's overstepped his bounds," Biden told members of a local Kiwanis Club in this early voting state.
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