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Summers issued three statements of apology last week. In the final, most contrite one, he said, "I deeply regret the impact of my comments ... I was wrong to have spoken in a way that has resulted in an unintended signal of discouragement to talented girls and women." Nevertheless, his original...
But the decision to issue an outright apology actually came an entire day earlier, when Summers and his staff in Massachusetts Hall determined the president had to publicly answer the growing din of criticism, according to an individual with knowledge of the central administration’s strategy last week...
Still, professors on the standing committee, who sent a highly critical letter to the president on Tuesday, were not assuaged by Summers’ apology to the Harvard community.
Members of the standing committee, many of whom said earlier they were nonplussed by Summers’ apology letter, largely declined to comment as they left their meeting with Summers at the Barker Center last night. In a statement, the committee would say only that the meeting was ?...
Wednesday’s apology came after a letter Summers sent Tuesday night responding to the standing committee in which he wrote that he “had hoped to stimulate research on many interrelated factors that bear on women’s careers in science.”