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Summers digressive Jan. 14 remarks at a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) conference sparked speculation that he touched on biological predispositions of blacks and Jews as well as women...
...Though my NBER remarks were explicitly speculative, and noted that ‘I may be all wrong,’ I should have left such speculation to those more expert in the relevant fields,” Summers wrote...
Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 said Summers’ critics have seized on the president’s January speech, delivered at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) conference, to further their own political goals, rather than out of genuine indignation at Summers’ comments...
...They have been lying in wait for him for some time,” Mansfield said. “I am pretty sure the incident at the NBER meeting was planned or at least seized on by people who had it in for the president...
...another faculty member said the NBER speech presented an opportunity to realize the extent of Faculty discontent with Summers, rather than an excuse to take on the president...