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Larry Summers reborn as economic leader.(NEWSWATCH)(Brief article)

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President-elect Barack Obama has appointed former Harvard president Larry Summers to lead the National Economic Council. Summers left Harvard two years ago amid tiffs with faculty and a statement alienating women.

In 2005, Summers suggested that women did not have the same "intrinsic aptitude" for science as men, which ...

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