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Summers issued three statements of apology last week. In the final, most contrite one, he said, "I deeply regret the impact of my comments ... I was wrong to have spoken in a way that has resulted in an unintended signal of discouragement to talented girls and women." Nevertheless, his original remarks set off a furor that will not quickly die down. A letter endorsed by some 120 Harvard professors said the speech reinforced "an institutional culture at Harvard that erects numerous barriers to improving the representation of women on the faculty...
...Fraud 101, explaining the psychology of the scam. "A lot of con men just want to please everyone," he says. He stresses that in a successful con game, appearances are everything. "After all," says Minkow, "fraud is nothing more than the skin of the truth stuffed with a lie." Spoken by the master himself...
...wrong,” he wrote, “to have spoken in a way that has resulted in an unintended signal of discouragement to talented girls and women...
While Summers spoke extemporaneously from a set of notes, “I would have advised him to have spoken from a written text,” Gardner said...
...wrong to have spoken in a way that has resulted in an unintended signal of discouragment to talented girls and women,” he said. “As a university president, I consider nothing more important than helping to create an environment, at Harvard and beyond, in which every one of us can pursue our intellectual passions and realize our aspirations to the fullest possible extent...