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Larry Summers, sacrificial beast.(Notes & Comments: March 2006)(Brief article)
Here's the message flashed to the world by the Harvard Corporation, that tiny politically correct squad that sits upon a $26 billion endowment and controls Harvard University: no one with courage or in the habit of independent judgment need apply to be president. When Harvard regurgitated Larry Summers, its embattled president, last month, it was front-page news, and rightly so. Harvard's action let us all know that the penalty for challenging the PC establishment was the oubliette. We've had occasion to mention Mr. Summers in this space before. There was his laudable calling to task of the preposterous Cornel West, the political sermonizer and hip-hop artiste masquerading as a political philosopher, followed instantly by Summers's abject apology when the black lobby at his university rose up to swat him for his impertinence in daring to criticize a brother. Then there was Summers's girl trouble last year, when he had the temerity ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times March 20, 2005 700+ words
...are now happily embracing Harvard's Larry Summers and Harvard's faculty is busily rejecting...for power and self-advancement. Larry Summers is speeding higher education's transformation...Rules," an unauthorized biography of Larry Summers masquerading as a Harvard treatise...
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- Magazine article from: Foreign Policy July 1, 2002 700+ words
Larry Summers is to modesty what Madonna is to chastity...economy to distance learning, and explains how Larry Summers, the academic economist, learned to live with Larry Summers, the public servant. FOREIGN POLICY: During...
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- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) September 27, 1999 700+ words
Treasury Secretary Larry Summers may have concluded by now that...If the financial gods frown at Larry Summers at some point they frown at nearly...Street's stumbles. Suddenly, Larry Summers is on his own. Jim Hoagland is...
- Aptitude or acculturation?(Speaking Of Education)(systemic bias in education,...
- Magazine article from: Black Issues in Higher Education Malveaux, Julianne March 10, 2005 700+ words
What was Larry Summers thinking? The Harvard president, as well...biologist who fled the NBER conference because Larry Summers offended her. I'd rather fight tooth...disparate options. But I'd also like to ask Larry Summers a
- Larry Summers; Director, National Economic council.(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Garber, Kent June 1, 2009 700+ words
Byline: Kent Garber Larry Summers's official title is director of the White House National Economic Council. In layman's...problems, even if his personality isn't a hit with the American public. CAPTION(S): Larry Summers
- Harvard's 'Fitting Choice'.(Larry Summers)
- Magazine article from: The Nation Bivens, Matt June 25, 2001 700+ words
On July 1, Larry Summers--the Wunderkind economist who ran the Treasury Department under...editorialized the New York Times. But fitting in what way? On July 1 Larry Summers--the Wunderkind economist who ran the Treasury Department under...
- US Director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers (L...
- Picture from: Getty Images NICHOLAS KAMM August 4, 2009 700+ words
...Images 08-04-2009 US Director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers (L... Full Size JPG (1365 KB) US Director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers (L) and Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors Christina Romer...
- Summers guilty of being interesting.(Commentary)(Larry Summers)
- Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal Lewis, Michael March 7, 2005 700+ words
...to another target. In this sense the women outraged over Larry Summers' remarks about women in science are correct to be upset...investigating or discarding. All that matters now is that Larry Summers is "controversial." A number of people say they worry...
