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What Summers said at the conference of the National Bureau of Economic Research caused a firestorm, and he has said repeatedly that his words were not well chosen. The Crimson some weeks ago included statements from prominent psychologists on the topic of gender. Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker suggested that there was adequate evidence to take seriously the hypothesis that men’s and women’s distributions of quantitative and spatial abilities may not be identical. Berkman Professor of Psychology Elizabeth Spelke was far more critical, arguing that gender differences are negligible, that it therefore...
...concerned that the current firestorm over University President Lawrence H. Summers’ intemperate remarks might be exploited by certain faculty to resist some much-needed changes in undergraduate life that Summers has championed. These changes include ending the first academic term prior to the Christmas break, deferring selection of a concentration area until the end of the sophomore year, and greatly expanding the junior year abroad program...
...Williams as the No. 2 pick in the NFL draft, Philadelphia's raucous fans booed McNabb before he took a single practice snap (Williams has since retired from football to travel, study holistic medicine and, by his own account, smoke weed). Rush Limbaugh thrust an unwitting McNabb into a firestorm in 2003 with his idiotic statement about black quarterbacks being overrated. Among veteran quarterbacks, McNabb has the highest winning percentage. But before this year, he had lost three straight NFC title games, sending Philly fans to the edge of the Schuylkill...
...this year saw fair Harvard get more than its fair share of headlines and airtime. At a conference sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), University President Lawrence H. Summers proved too provocative for his audience. He promptly found himself in the middle of a media firestorm over his citing of the hypothesis that women trailed men in innate ability in mathematics and science. That evening, controversial Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly took on another Harvard news item—the College’s hiring of a so-called “fun czar...
...occasion came about two weeks after Summers’ comments at an economics conference about innate differences between men and women’s abilities in science touched off a firestorm of controversy...