Word: murrayism
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...political heat was getting to be a lot to handle, and Harvard would be a breath of fresh air. In Washington, Summers told Allan Murray, then a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, that half the people who knew his name were waiting for him to fail at all times. Summers was looking forward to working in a place where everyone would be cheering for his success...
...make some changes before taking on a high-profile cabinet level position, and Rubin’s treatment worked wonders. According to journalists who covered him at the time, Summers underwent a dramatic transformation, coating his famously bold personality with a keen sense of tact and thoughtfulness. Murray calls Summers the most political Treasury secretary ever, pointing out that he is the only man to hold the job in recent memory who did not make any major public blunders...
...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...
...Anyone who talks to him knows that he’s very sharp and analytical and clever and pointed,” Murray says. “But I think it was really the memo that was the cause of his reputation as being prone to make gaffes...
...there are members who could be sympathetic to the pop star. A 21-year-old man in a wheel-chair who said he had visited Jackson's Neverland Ranch as a child expressed disgust at discrimination lawsuits brought against local restaurants by a disabled man. Jury consultant Sarah Murray thought that could presage a lack of sympathy for Jackson's accuser. That juror is "somebody who doesn't like it when people play the victim," says Murray. Another potential obstacle for the prosecution is a self-assured great-grandmother, 79, who proclaims herself a "Jeopardy freak...