Word: ousters
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Cataclysm usually makes for a teaching moment. Not so with the resignation of Larry Summers.If I hadn’t witnessed it firsthand, I’d say Summers’ ouster had all the makings of one of those storylines in which implausible characters make the plot altogether fantastic and unredeemed.The recent events are a scene lifted from Kafka, where an unthinking chimera called the Faculty of Arts and Sciences seizes upon wrongdoings that few outside the academy would conceive of as wrong and then tenaciously holds on, overseeing the two-year-long persecution of their boss for these...
...dean of the Faculty, the Institutional Investor article added still more fuel to the Faculty’s uproar.“Bill’s resignation was the most important thing behind it,” said Coolidge Professor of History David Blackbourn, referring to Summers’ ouster. But, he added, “Larry’s answer to the question about Andrei Shleifer also really antagonized people.”Houghton’s 200-word letter defended Summers’ controversial response at the Feb. 7 meeting.“Given President Summers?...
...better or worse—that he will once again be viewed only in the context of Summers. In the end, this could be a case of ironic justice: the legacy of the man always in Summers’ shadow will be defined by his own ouster, the final nail in Summers’ coffin...
...brilliant, provocative, and intellectually honest man who could show American universities what a liberal education was all about. The triumph of his Lilliputian adversaries, however, confirms what I had always feared about Harvard, that it is a bubble of self-congratulation and small-mindedness. The ramifications of his ouster will be broad and destructive, as free-thinkers and censors at schools across the country recalculate their positions relative to one another. This is a shameful day for the University...
...most prominent professors at the Law School, Alan M. Dershowitz, expressed outrage over Summers’ ouster...