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...wasn’t. The committee was not assuaged by the letter, and Summers continued to field intensifying criticism for his remarks. Inside Mass. Hall, where work is conducted in library voices and the loudest sound is usually the grandfather clock in the foyer, tension was escalating...
Though individual staffers had their own opinions as to the tone of Summers’ letter, most argued for an unambiguous apology. “Something along the lines of, ‘I’m sorry,’ without hedging it at all,” said one of the sources...
...That was a marked shift from Summers’ public statements up until that point. In a letter to the Harvard community released on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2005, the president wrote that he was “wrong to have spoken in a way that has resulted in an unintended signal of discouragement to talented girls and women.” But he did not say that he was wrong, period...
...wording of that letter, like his reply to the committee on Tuesday, had been carefully vetted by Summers and his staff in Mass. Hall, who reviewed and debated several drafts before it was released, according to two sources who were informed of the discussions in the president’s office at the time...
...week later by saying, "My zeal, my love of Israel, and my concern for the future safety of your nation led me to make remarks which I can now view in retrospect as inappropriate and insensitive in light of a national grief." Those were Robertson's words in a letter delivered to Sharon's son Omri yesterday evening, Israeli time. The letter, marked for hand delivery yet also posted on Robertson's website, also asked "the forgiveness of the people of Israel" and pleaded that "when I speak, it is always as a friend...