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Summers quickly became a frequent whipping post for right-leaning writers like the Wall Street Journal??s Paul A. Gigot, who was perhaps Summers’ most caustic critic. While his columns mostly blasted Summers’ policy stances, Gigot also skewered Summers for his perceived arrogance. “Larry Summers is to modesty what Madonna is to chastity,” Gigot wrote...
...fall of 2001, when Gigot became chair of the Journal??s editorial page, he seemed to come around to join the Summers camp. Gigot’s change-of-tune foreshadowed a broader rapprochement between Summers and the right...
...tracked developments from afar, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ian Johnson had a much closer seat as the Wall Street Journal??s Beijing correspondent. In “Wild Grass: Three Portraits of Change in Modern China,” Johnson tells the stories of three Chinese citizens who have challenged the government. Ma Wenlin, a law clerk, helped overtaxed farmers file a class-action suit against the government. Fang Ke, an architecture student, wrote an influential underground book detailing the destruction of old Beijing. Chen Zixiu, a retiree and a member of the Falun Gong sect, refused...
...According to a January 1993 article in the Economist, Vice President Al Gore ’69’s decision to veto Summers’ bid to chair the Council of Economic Advisers under the Clinton Administration was a direct result of the memo—and the Journal??s Alan Murray, who has since become an assistant managing editor at the paper, says that most of Summers’ image problems can be traced back to that one incident...
...nation’s most prominent education journalists. Reporters from at least three Boston-area newspapers—the Globe, the Herald, and Metro—joined counterparts from at least four New York-based dailies—the Times, the Post, the Sun and the Wall Street Journal??as well as the Washington Post and the Associated Press...