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...SOMERVILLE??€”Eliot University Professor Lawrence H. Summers critized higher education practices in a lecture at Tufts University yesterday that drew extensively on his experiences as Harvard president. The speech, including some of his first public remarks on education since his resignation last year, came amidst protest and promised boycott from some Tufts faculty members, who objected to comments he made in 2005 about the intrinsic aptitude of women in math and science. Summers led with jokes that brought laughter from the audience of Tufts students and professors. He wryly said his view of academia before his Harvard presidency...
...SOMERVILLE??€”Believe it or not, Lawrence H. Summers is only beginning to say what he really thinks...
...that might ring truer to the Commencement Day crowd, the sum could fund four full years of Harvard tuition for 11.5 million undergraduates—more than the total number of full-time college students in the U.S.Or, it could pay for the entire world population to enroll in Somerville??€™s after-school basketball program—47 times over.—Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached at lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu...
...Somerville??€™s mayor said earlier this month that he would veto a divestment plan, and the manager of the city’s pension fund said a Board of Aldermen resolution would legally have no effect on city investments...
After the vote was taken at Somerville??€™s city hall, supporters of the divestment plan walked up to the aldermen and began singing an African anti-apartheid song while distributing pro-divestment pamphlets, according to White...