Harvard President Lawrence Summers wondered aloud, at a recent academic conference, whether there might not be innate differences between the scientific capacities of men and women.(The Week)(Brief Article)

* Harvard President Lawrence Summers wondered aloud, at a recent academic conference, whether there might not be innate differences between the scientific capacities of men and women. "I just couldn't breathe," said Nancy Hopkins, a professor of biology at MIT, who walked out. "This kind of bias makes me physically ill." In his third apology, Summers said, "I have learned a great deal from all that I have heard in the last few days." What he learned--rather, re-learned: How could an academic lifer not have known it?--is that there are favored groups in university life: women, blacks, gays, increasingly Palestinians. They are like "special" children; they must be segregated, wherever possible, and everyone must praise their crayon drawings of ...