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...Thomas’ supervisor issued a memo??which will remain in her record—that chastised her for absenteeism and lateness. Thomas said her lateness was due to chronic fatigue caused by her sickle cell trait, and that other events, such as the murder of her cousin, forced her to miss work...
...security memo??embarrassing but not devastating—became an issue because the White House made a ridiculous combination of assertions, first that the document was too “historical” to have acted on, then that it was too current to declassify. The administration’s whole history with the Commission, from opposing its creation to refusing to share documents and testify before it, has conveyed the impression that the White House has something to hide—an impression far more damaging than the fact that the administration made a number of predictable...
...concrete effects of the policies instituted under his lead while serving as chief economist for the World Bank—including damming the world against its wishes and making troublesome regions safe for industrial intrusion—there’s the infamous “Toxic waste memo?? of 1991, from which one choice line should suffice: “I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that.” Summers later claimed variously that he was kidding...
...Summers Memo. Over the past few months, president-elect Lawrence H. Summers 1991 World Bank memo on pollution trading has been forwarded, without comment, across several campus e-mail lists. The lack of meaningful discussion accompanying the letters seemed to be an attempt at shocked silence, letting the memo??s statements—notably, its assertion that “the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable”—speak for themselves. I had never before realized that emails could be sent in hushed tones...