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...appeared overwhelmed by the job of running Harvard. (After Rudenstine suffered what looked like a nervous breakdown and took a leave four years into his tenure, Newsweek put him on the cover with the line “Exhausted.”) Larry Summers has a brilliant mind and bold, forward-looking ideas for Harvard, but, to my mind, suffered from a leadership flaw that was much more serious than not being able to keep his shirts tucked in or his penchant for sounding offensive when he means to be provocative. Whether you like Summers...
...would like to see someone who is smart, has bold and constructive ideas, and skill at listening. A sense of social justice wouldn’t be out of place, either...
...much money for the University as possible, rather than tend to the deficiencies in Harvard’s classrooms. Summers, in contrast, was an “ideas” president, who took Harvard’s mission as a place of discovery and teaching seriously: he sought bold changes to the core (literally) of the Harvard education and he refused to mouth the fashionable nostrums that Harvard’s lazier minds insist on. Yes, he said, the University has an obligation to serve and love the country. Yes, science may lead us to discoveries that, at least...
...seated in the third row greeted Summers with the letters L-A-R-R-Y painted on their chests in red paint. When asked by one of those students, former Crimson business manager Gregory B. Michnikov ’06, whether someone with Summers’ “bold vision” would want Harvard’s presidency now, the president paused. “It’s such a pleasure to be with you guys,” Summers responded, drawing laughter and applause. —Staff writer Nicholas M. Ciarelli can be reached...
...prisoners. That it refuses to bring its inmates to trial, regardless of the inmates’ physical treatment, is inexcusable. Every inmate at Guantanamo must receive a fair guilty or innocent decision in a speedy fashion in order for the U.S. to lay claim to a functioning justice system. Bold prosecution of suspected terrorists is desirable, but indefinite detention of, and violent action toward, men innocent before the law is loathsome to the ideal of fairness...