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Summers on May 2, addressing the final lecture of Psychology 1002, “Morality and Taboo”—a course inspired by the furor that dogged his presidency. Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, who co-taught the course with Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker, responded, “Well, maybe that was the problem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Record | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

...needed a little bit of separation, a little bit of time so that when he interacted with his colleagues the only topic of conversation wouldn’t have been the various controversies he was embroiled in,” says Pinker, who publicly supported Summers during the initial furor over his women-in-science remarks...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno and Laurence H. M. holland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Out of Office, Back in Business | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...lawsuit against Shleifer, one of his associates, and Harvard, resulting in a $26 million fine against the University and $2 million penalties apiece for Shleifer and the associate. When the dust settled, the University stripped Shleifer of his endowed chair—but not tenure—and the furor contributed to the ouster of Summers from the Harvard presidency...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Andrei Shleifer and J. Bradford DeLong | 6/4/2007 | See Source »

...furor over the incident is a case of hypersensitivity on all sides: Quad residents were unnecessarily territorial and were too quick filing a noise complaint—though during reading period it's tough to blame them—and the organizations hosting the event, the Association of Black Harvard Women and the Black Men’s Forum, were too hasty to use the R-word to describe the police's being called...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg and Sahil K. Mahtani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Dr. Counter Must Apologize | 5/21/2007 | See Source »

...polls and keen to prove her mettle as the first woman candidate ever to reach the second round, who relentlessly hounded her opponent - perhaps to a fault. More than once Sarkozy looked like a man whose tie was too tight, but he never exploded into the splenetic furor that has been his political trademark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Royal, Sarkozy: Toe-to-Toe in France | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

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