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...savings. "I tried but failed," she writes, "to do what millions of Australians do every day." She begins her book with a dig at high-profile media colleagues who are, she says, too often more preoccupied with being players in events than with faithfully describing them. "I'm more intent on vivifying the flash of color and the blur of movement down below," she writes. There should be more...
...strongest Summers-lovers were probably fully behind the Prez when he said a few years back that certain vitriolic anti-Israel comments could be “anti-Semitic in effect if not intent.” Summers is Jewish (and so am I, for the record). When his own group was involved, he showed sensitivity and subtlety—even if his critics missed it. Rationally or not, many Jews’ identities are tied strongly to Israel’s. So the virulence of some anti-Israel sentiment can hit us where it hurts, even if, like...
...without realizing how important West was as a role model and teacher to so many students at Harvard. And when West packed his bags, Summers’ actions were taken by many, in Harvard’s black community and beyond, as threatening—in effect if not intent...
...then a few weeks ago Summers decided to talk about women in science, downplaying the role of discrimination when it came to their scarcity. Not a woman himself, Summers made comments that were sexist in effect if not intent...
...grievances, we all—Summers included-—stay focused on opening Harvard’s doors to all, and closing Harvard’s legacy of exclusion for good. Then this scandal can have a positive result, dare I say it, in effect if not intent...