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To: LindyBill who wrote (46766)	9/24/2002 9:10:00 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

As I read it, he is objecting only to the petition that called for Harvard to stop Israeli investments, not any other petitions. Yes, that's exactly right, that paragraph is only about that petition. I'm not even arguing the petition was a good idea. Politically it may well have been a mistake. But I genuinely understand the frustration that went into producing it. What's wrong, again, with Summers speech is not that he would not honor the petition, nor that he publicly stated he would not do so. Presidents do these sorts of things all the time and they should. What is wrong is to call the petition and thus the petitioners, anti-semitic.