More on Sarah Lawrence
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- November
- 12
After Rahm Emanuel was named chief of staff in the Obama administration, I talked to one of his former professors at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers.
Charlotte Doyle remembered him as a brilliant student who read the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
“He was self-motivated, and what he learned, he really learned and carried with him and used,” she said.
Emanuel’s adviser at the college, Jefferson Adams, had a different memory of his former student. He was not an academic, Adams told The New Yorker.
“His papers were ‘good, not outstanding. They showed an involvement in the material, but nothing you’d put in an anthology. He was not a stellar writer, and he’s not a great speaker. He’s very effective one on one.’”
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