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These days, Summers is seldom mentioned in the press without some reference to the numerous public scandals that have forced his foot into his mouth since those early days in Washington. Over the course of the last six weeks, as public outrage over Summers’ remarks suggesting differences of “intrinsic ability” between men and women continued to snowball, the media has not given Summers a single day off. Most of the nation’s major news dailies have published editorials on the “women in science” scandal...
Despite his efforts, the press did not draw much attention to Summers’ transformation—because, after all, the absence of scandal is hardly news worth reporting. But even when journalists did acknowledge his changing persona, they invariably coupled it with a reminder of his traditionally abrasive tendencies...
Luckily, only an ocean away, there lies a country without a president and with plenty of entertaining controversies of “leadership” (however ceremonial). The country is Great Britain, and the scandal is as follows...
...Worcester Sauce. The alert led to the recall of more than 400 products. The other countries affected are importers of foodstuffs from Britain. Tarnished Temple GREECE Archbishop Christodoulos, the head of Greece's Orthodox Church, rejected calls by several senior clergymen to step down amid a corruption scandal that has seen a number of clerics facing allegations of bribing judges, drug dealing and theft. Christodoulos did announce the suspension of two close aides, but said he was "called upon to lead a cleanup of the church." Apportioning Blame RUSSIA The Prosecutor General's office formally charged Muslim Ibragimov, a Chechen...
Let’s hope that once the faculty airs its grievances, we all—Summers included-—stay focused on opening Harvard’s doors to all, and closing Harvard’s legacy of exclusion for good. Then this scandal can have a positive result, dare I say it, in effect if not intent...