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application--that right away eliminates her from admission to an Ivy League school. The fact that she lied about being a murderer makes it worse. The fact that the publication of the
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this question, because the school she had been attending at the time of the murder had had no opportunity to take any action against her. The accusation of lying involved her
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This answer is buried deep in the article. I would have thought it rather key to proving causality. When did the murder happen? When did the college admission happen? Knowing these fact up front better informs the reader why this event is controversial? Until the lead section can answer these facts I
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don't understand why it is rated as a C class article in other WikiProjects. This explains why I have rated Start class because the lead section is not accurately sumarising the article but only serving as a teaser to entice the reader to read on. That is not the purpose of the lead section. -
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So let me get this straight: "most newspapers" thought that
Harvard was being "Puritanical" by not admitting a convicted murderer who lied about it on her application? I'd like to see this "consensus" in the form of several notable publications (real newspapers, not the "Industrial Workers of
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I am removing from the main article the mention of the "Industrial Worker" Op-Ed article that sided with Gina Grant, because it's not a notable publication, they have nothing to do with this case, and, frankly, Gina Grant doesn't have a leg to stand on. She got caught lying on her college
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I went to high school with Gina Grant, and we always saw that she had something glaring in here eyes, you could tell she was a little off, but I thought it was just part of her personality. After the news came out, it was obvious it was her past.
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Harvard should have been nicer to her. You disparage the existing body of literature as 'scant newspaper articles', when in fact tens of thousands of words were published about this crime in reputable newspapers and magazines.
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We obviously have different views on the nature of the crime itself, which is of no consequence. I stand by my revisions. Everything I edited came directly from credible articles (one of which, by the way, I
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her boyfriend at the time of the killing. Anyone who is going to be so careless about editing
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