2 January 2005: Silber speaks, Boston Globe

“This man, we saw later on, was a control freak,” says Silber. “But he didn’t come across as a control freak. . . . You had a highly mercurial character who, like many a successful person, has managed to hide his real intent until the last minute. And, fortunately, Mr. Goldin misplayed his hand. He started laying his cards down too soon. If he had waited another two or three weeks, he’d have had the job and then we’d have had a real disaster at the university.”

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