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...fair, President Summers’ advocates say that his bull-in-a-china-shop style is exactly what Harvard needs. The rhetoric of that argument is powerful, but the logic curious. After all, Summers has repeatedly sandbagged his own agenda by igniting pointless and distracting controversies. In other instances, such as the curricular review, President Summers’ insular leadership has probably made his work less successful rather than more. What, exactly, has Larry Summers done that Neil Rudenstine could not have also accomplished, and without the trauma...
Still, despite his attempts to apologize and sort out the conflicts, the positive reputation he tried to establish in Washington was quickly gutted and his “bull in a china-shop” image—an epithet first uttered by West on a radio talk show—was firmly established...
...Larry is someone who very easily took on this shape—this abrasive ‘bull in a china shop’ thing—so every new anecdote was pressed into that form. But I don’t think you can blame that on the media. Larry gave himself that shape,” Traub says. “He handed the media a self-parodied version of himself and they all too happily adopted...
...politics have earned Robbins a roast much less friendly than the Pudding’s in the conservative press. In one notable April 2003 incident, as the United States entered its second month in Iraq, the Baseball Hall of Fame planned a Cooperstown celebration of 1988’s Bull Durham featuring members of the film’s cast and crew. The event was cancelled when Hall of Fame president Dale Petroskey declared that recent remarks by Robbins and Sarandon—who were busy advocating for peace 15 years after starring in the minor-league diamond drama?...
Many aspects of Summers’ tenure—his bull-in-a-china shop reputation, his handling of Allston or the Core or the appointment of deans, his brusque or ‘corporate’ style—deserve serious and searching discussion. Under his leadership, Harvard is making long-term changes to its curriculum and physical plant. If those decisions are being made poorly, or without appropriate consultation, the Faculty needs to speak...