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...events of Sept. 11, which have made America safe for serious rhetoric for the first time, perhaps, since the close of the Cold War. But still, it is to his credit that in a series of speeches, Summers has done something that the verbally-challenged Rudenstine never did??€”namely, discuss the moral responsibility that the University bears to the United States, which is (according to Summers) similar to those borne by any American citizen. In the cloistered and reflexively anti-American world of academe, these are radical and refreshing words indeed...
Harvard’s past may have helped PSLM as well. Bartley points to the pressure of alumni as something that forced the University administration to finally cave in to their demands: “If the New York Times calls Harvard greedy—which they did??€”it has a tremendous ripple effect on alumni. I would like to think that we changed the corporation’s mind on the issue, but more importantly, perhaps, we changed their calculations on how the institution would be affected by this action...
Then I talked to one person who knew them much better than I did??€”Harvard coach Joe Walsh...
Says Hitchcock, “We just raided the vault to see what was left, or [what] I did??€¦just to make it into the definitive Underwater Moonlight and put it in the context that it was in… And perhaps there’s that inevitable feeling that the further things are in history, the more important it is to excavate them. Back in 1990, only 10 years on, the first time we re-released it on disc in Britain [on Rykodisc], it didn’t seem that important to dig up all the rest...