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Being Lee Bollinger: The very model of a modern college president.

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| October 14, 2002 | CONTINETTI, MATTHEW | COPYRIGHT 2002 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Lee Bollinger, the recently installed president of Columbia University, is used to praise. Newsweek labeled him an exemplar of a "new, visionary breed of college presidents." In The New Yorker, Nicholas Lemann wrote that "if you were called upon to invent a perfect university president, you couldn't do better" than Bollinger. And in an article entitled "A Renaissance Man at Columbia's Helm," the Christian Science Monitor cooed that beneath the college president's "gentle voice and unassuming manner lies a powerful legal counterpuncher."

Why all the approbation? There are two reasons. The first is that Bollinger is a capable administrator. For example, when he ...

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