<p>Re the Kirkland House shooting:</p>
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<li><p>Neither the victim nor the assailants were Harvard students.</p></li>
<li><p>Both the victim and the assailants were drug dealers who were meeting on the Harvard campus, because it was a convenient place for them to meet. (One lived nearby, the others were visiting a friend at Harvard.)</p></li>
<li><p>The extent of involvement by Harvard students has never been clear, in part because the university has pretty successfully put a gag on everyone.</p></li>
<li><p>I though it received a lot of press. If it didn’t get the same tabloid tsunami as the Annie Le case, it is probably because the victim was far from innocent (and was male), and the case was essentially solved within a single news cycle.</p></li>
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