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“Let’s leave Bush and Gore aside. That was like a bad hair day.”
New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse, when asked at the annual Goldsmith Awards Ceremony in the Forum how often she feels a decision by the nation’s highest court is made contrary to the Constitution. She said the question was provocative, but aside from the decision in 2000 that catapulted Bush to the presidency, she couldn’t think of any other decision that contradicted the Constitution. Greenhouse was awarded the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism.

“The man who did the most feels the worst.”
Kennedy School lecturer Samantha Power at a Forum event in March speaking about fellow panelist Romeo Dallaire, the former force commander for the United Nations mission to Rwanda. Power said that lower-level U.N. bureaucrats had vital information concerning the genocide that was taking place in Rwanda in 1994, but that the highest level “had other national interests.” The panel discussion also included filmmaker Greg Barker, who showed some of his Frontline documentary, “Ghosts of Rwanda.” After the clip, Power praised Dallaire for his leadership in adverse conditions.

“I wish I could say I were responsible for everything he’s done, but it’s not true.”
IOP director Dan Glickman at a study group in March where his son, Jonathan Glickman, was the guest speaker. The younger Glickman, a movie producer in Hollywood, came to the Kennedy School to talk about filmmaking and politics.

“There aren’t a lot of men here. What a statement that makes.”
Jackson Katz, an anti-sexist male activist, as he looked around the room when he came to the school to talk about why violence against women is a leadership issue for men. Calling violence against women a “women’s issue,” he said, gives men the excuse to “tune out.”