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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (188955)	5/10/2012 10:10:14 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 542957

I know you're not defending Romney but I think you place too little value on what this incident tells us about him. Looks as if we may just disagree here. I grew up in a climate in central Texas in the late 40s early 50s when such behavior was not unusual. I look back on it with more than a little disgust but it was a fairly big constant of our lives. That was predictive behavior for some and not for others. And looking back on it, I don't see any serious clues as to which would be which. My own conclusion about Romney is that this incident tells us less about his "bullying" personality and much more about his lack of comfort with his own skin, in this instance, his own past. As with so much else, he handled the story about as badly as one could.

To: cnyndwllr who wrote (188955)	5/11/2012 12:51:30 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542957

Hi Ed, Here is a paragraph from the original Post story on the hair cutting incident: Ben Snyder, who as an assistant headmaster later spearheaded the school’s effort to recruit inner-city students, said Cranbrook in Romney’s time “had its standards and applied them briskly when needed.” As chairman of a group of faculty members and students who were in charge of discipline, he described a strict school in which offenders could be “dismissed, period.” Snyder could not recall dealing with any transgressions involving Romney. “I wouldn’t expect to see him,” Snyder said of the disciplinary tribunals. “The family was so straight, they don’t do those types of things.” The boy whose hair was cut (John Joseph Lauber ) by Romney later got kicked out of the school for being caught smoking. Nothing was done to Romney. I don't think that the incident was reported. Lauber died of liver cancer in 2004. Here is the complete article: Message 28136112