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...protect Shleifer,” McClintick writes.At the Feb. 7 Faculty meeting that precipitated the president’s demise, Summers—confronted with McClintick’s charges—said he was “not knowledgeable of the facts and circumstances to be able to express an opinion as a consequence of my recusal.” The Harvard Corporation’s senior fellow, James R. Houghton ’58, would later defend Summers’ response—or lack thereof. “Given his recusal, his consequent lack of knowledge...
...knowledgeable of the facts and circumstances to be able to express an opinion,” Summers replied, noting that he had recused himself from the handling of the matter...
...nuclear problem looks remarkably like his No Child Left Behind education policy, which simply punishes noncompliance. John Janovy Jr. Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S. In Defense of the Dems In Joe Klein's "Easy targets for Karl Rove" [May 22], the description of was excessive and uncalled for. Conyers and Rangel express a clear-eyed African-American perspective gained from hard experience. Klein may not share their politics, but he still owes them respect. Adele Batchelder Rocky Hill, New Jersey, U.S. The Sponsorship Circus Thank you for your revealing article on the ferocious advertising battle between Nike and Adidas during soccer...
...brick to branch disappointed and disaffected with certain elements of my education. “This is the best school in the world?” I would think after a Shakespeare section with a foreign teaching fellow who had hardly mastered conversational English, let alone the ability to express the rich and intricate arrangements of the great playwright. I’ve shivered in snow, rain, and even the occasional burst of sunshine after sitting through mind-numbing physics labs where menial and tedious tasks such as tracing lines on electrode-conducting paper have doubled as deepening my understanding...
...this week, many of the old men (and the women of Radcliffe’s Class of 1956) are less than overjoyed with the changes that have taken place. There is grumbling about the fact that Harvard has just lost its president, driven from office for, among other sins, expressing his own ideas about the apparent dearth of women in the ranks of scholars in the sciences. The fact that today’s college administrators, as well as faculty, are at risk of being publicly pilloried by expressing “wrong” ideas cuts deeply into...