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...Some were delayed for so long that they were prevented from enrolling for the fall semester altogether. And Harvard’s nine professional schools noted a significant decrease in international applicants, The Crimson reported in 2004.As a result, University President Lawrence H. Summers wrote a letter in April 2004 to Secretary of State Colin Powell and Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge ’67 in which he criticized the damaging impact of visa complications on universities. “We risk losing some of our most talented scientists and compromising our country’s position...
...group of prominent law professors—including two from Harvard Law School (HLS)—wrote a letter earlier this week to Congressional leaders in which they rebutted the Bush Administration’s legal case for permitting spying on American citizens. Loeb University Professor Laurence H. Tribe ’62 and Ames Professor of Law Phillip B. Heymann, a former deputy attorney general during the Clinton administration, were among the 14 signers. The letter was largely a point-by-point response to a formal defense of the domestic spying program issued by the Department of Justice...
...Summers was hesitant to apologize for his remarks, which suggested that “issues of intrinsic aptitude” could account for the scarcity of female scientists on elite college faculties. But on his desk lay a blistering letter from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ Standing Committee on Women, the first indication that the dust-up over his remarks would not subside. He would have to reply...
...impact” of his role in the conference at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Summers, who also conceded that he “could have done a better job framing” his remarks, offered to meet with the committee at a later date. He signed the letter, “Best, Larry...
...letter was carefully worded,” said one of the sources, who was familiar with the internal strategy of the president’s office at the time. “It tried to be conciliatory, but nobody in Mass. Hall thought it was strong enough...