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In 1995, Summers found himself up for a promotion, as the Clinton administration was pushing Congress to confirm him as deputy secretary—the most powerful position in the Treasury below Rubin’s. Owen Ullman, a reporter with BusinessWeek Magazine, wrote a story about the obstacles facing...
His parents, who he describes as hippies, set their child apart from the crowd, giving him his distinctive first name to honor a soldier who protected the French supply of arms and beaver pelts against the English. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW]
Since he came to Harvard two years ago, de la Durantaye has been faced more than once with the problem of distinguishing himself from the students he teaches. One student, Dan P. Gilmore ’05, calls de la Durantaye a “young, dandy professor?...
Though de la Durantaye is often rumored to be of mysterious European origins, he actually hails from East Lansing, Mich., where his family has lived since the sixteenth century. His Midwest rearing was not as parochial, however, as it may sound. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW]
Despite his hippie breeding, de la Durantaye nonetheless learned certain bourgeois sports—like baseball and tennis—from his more traditional grandparents. Although he played baseball seriously, he quit in an “act of weird rebellion” against his father, who had once seriously...