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Penn State’s Trustees Recount Painful Decision to Fire Paterno

New York Times

January 19, 2012

No one in the room spoke. There was silence from the phone speakers. Paterno's 46-year tenure as head coach of one of the country's storied college football programs was over, and the gravity of the action began to sink in. "It was hard for us to want to get to the point where we were going to say that," said Ira M. Lubert, a board member who works in private equity. "I was laying in bed that night shaking. And I couldn't sleep - thinking: We just terminated Joe Paterno."

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