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n 2012, Witt was the subject of a New York Times story after he claimed to have skipped a Rhodes scholarship interview to play in a football game against Harvard, drawing obsequious nationwide profiles for his “apparent choice of team fealty over individual honor”. According to the Times, he chose this story rather than admitting that the Rhodes Trust had rescinded his scholarship candidacy after learning he had been accused by an ex-girlfriend of sexual assault.29 In 2014, he penned an op-ed for the Boston Globe opposing a new sexual harassment policy at Harvard, where he was in his first year of law school. In the op-ed, he claimed the NFL passed him over because of the accusation, adding that he both did not know what the accusation was and that he was innocent of it.c Witt’s Globe op-ed was titled “A sexual harassment policy that nearly ruined my life”.30 I guess he couldn’t have known then that, a decade later, such an accusation would be practically a resume requirement for the Trump administration. c. Witt also claimed in the Globe op-ed that the Times had retracted their story; I could find no evidence of a retraction, and the story remains online. The Times’ public editor, Arthur S. Brisbane, did publish a secondary article questioning the use of anonymous sources in the original story, but wrote, “I’m not in a position to dispute The Times’s finding, although I think the story was handicapped by not having Mr. Witt’s version of the timeline.” (Brisbane also noted t
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n 2012, Witt was the subject of a New York Times story after he claimed to have skipped a Rhodes scholarship interview to play in a football game against Harvard, drawing obsequious nationwide profiles for his “apparent choice of team fealty over individual honor”. According to the Times, he chose this story rather than admitting that the Rhodes Trust had rescinded his scholarship candidacy after learning he had been accused by an ex-girlfriend of sexual assault.29 In 2014, he penned an op-ed for the Boston Globe opposing a new sexual harassment policy at Harvard, where he was in his first year of law school. In the op-ed, he claimed the NFL passed him over because of the accusation, adding that he both did not know what the accusation was and that he was innocent of it.c Witt’s Globe op-ed was titled “A sexual harassment policy that nearly ruined my life”.30 I guess he couldn’t have known then that, a decade later, such an accusation would be practically a resume requirement for the Trump administration. c. Witt also claimed in the Globe op-ed that the Times had retracted their story; I could find no evidence of a retraction, and the story remains online. The Times’ public editor, Arthur S. Brisbane, did publish a secondary article questioning the use of anonymous sources in the original story, but wrote, “I’m not in a position to dispute The Times’s finding, although I think the story was handicapped by not having Mr. Witt’s version of the timeline.” (Brisbane also noted t
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