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...know how the Summers saga ends—badly, following the unforgivable suggestion that biological differences arising from one’s sex might matter in human cognition. He sealed his fate not even by positing a controversial belief, but by his mere suggestion that it could be the case—and no matter that his actions spoke loud, that he did more than anyone, for instance, to make a Harvard education affordable to poor and middle-income families. Summers was punished for doing what, in the best of worlds, intellectuals would do more often: taking advantage...
...Middlesex County judge yesterday dismissed the case against four Harvard undergraduates who were arrested last month after disrupting a speech by the director of the FBI. The quick decision brought to a close a two-week saga that prompted debate across the University about free speech on campus. At the pre-trial hearing at Cambridge District Court yesterday morning, Justice Roanne Sragow said that Harvard had requested that the charges be dropped and said that it would handle the matter internally. She then dismissed the case. The University released a statement on May 1 requesting that the charges be dropped...
...decision brought to a close in under a minute a two-week saga that prompted debate across the University about free speech on campus...
...Wolfowitz saga that has been grabbing all the headlines, of course. The Iraq-war architect was plucked from the Defense Department and deposited by President George W. Bush at the World Bank in 2005 (by tradition, the U.S. President picks the bank's chief). At the time, Wolfowitz informed the bank's ethics committee that he was seeing Shaha Riza, a communications adviser at the bank, and the in-house ethicists told him she should be moved to another agency and given a raise for her troubles. But the size of the pay hike (from...
...stairs, when he felt a sudden pain and a bit of a pop in his right calf. The calf was sore and it made him limp so he went to a commercial chain's urgent care center nearby (a "doc-in-the-box" in hospitalese) and thus began his saga. The story made me groan...