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Within a year of his arrival at Harvard, however, Summers found himself in the midst of a public relations crisis, facing criticism from all sides for his loose tongue, his rough treatment of various professors, and above all, his extremely charged feud with African American Studies star Cornel R. West...
These same qualities, while lauded in Washington for their effectiveness, would prove irreconcilable with the working environment he’d later find at Harvard. Moreover, as Summers learned under Rubin, they wouldn’t even cut it at the Treasury.
“I think for most of us who covered him, there was a sense that when he moved to the Treasury with Bob Rubin, that he learned enormous amounts,” Murray recalls. “I think it’s kind of mystifying to those...
There’s the shared love and passion for their sport that has grown with time. For Ogunwole, it started when his high school’s wrestling coach saw him playing football and had instant dreams of getting the quick and powerful athlete on the mat. For Preston...
Larry Summers has learned a lot in the past few weeks about the problem of judgment on the basis of identity over merit. On the one hand, his critics are concerned that he is encouraging society to evaluate women based on their gender and not on their intellectual aptitudes. And...