
We never noticed it before, but Lee Bollinger looks
kinda like Gerard Depardieu.Photo: Getty Images
Even the Post featured a picture of Bollinger with the headline U DA MAN and quoted him — "You exhibit all the signs of a petty, cruel dictator" — in their cover line. Newsday went with "Whack!" on the cover and "Bollinger Stands Tall in Controversy" inside. Oooh, but the Daily News is sticking to its guns! Michael Goodwin throws down, calling Bollinger's hard line "Too Little Too Late." "Bollinger was in full damage control mode," he writes. "He mixed facts with insults and threw them like a giant spitball." So does Giuliani. But the most fervent of Bollinger's critics appear to have been appeased: The Times notes that shortly after the speech the American Israel Public Affairs Committee sent out an e-mail transcript of Bollinger's introduction with the subject line "A Must Read." "The University loves him even more than they did before," one Columbia student told New York. It's a comeback bigger than Flava Flav's! Isn't that just the American way?
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