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...Summers?? spokesman, John Longbrake, declined to respond to the information in this story. “We are not going to comment on anonymous subjective accounts of internal discussions,” he said in a statement. “Our focus is on the future...
...strategy session in Summers?? office, one of at least a dozen that would occur over the following three months, the president was dismissive of Faculty members who had criticized his remarks and said he thought the issue would soon blow over, according to the two individuals briefed on the meeting...
...Summers?? personal feelings about the controversy posed a problem for his senior staff, who were trying to convince the president to sound a more repentant tone in public. But according to several people familiar with the discussions in Mass. Hall, Summers was reluctant to bend on two key points: academic freedom, which he felt should have protected his right to hypothesize on unsettled scientific issues, and the faculty’s criticisms of his leadership, which he thought were unfair and ill-willed...
...Within the confines of his office in the early days of the controversy, Summers met regularly with at least four key staffers: A. Clayton Spencer, then associate vice president for higher education policy and arguably Summers?? closest adviser; Marc Goodheart, secretary to the Harvard Corporation, the University’s top governing board; Jason M. Solomon ’93-’95, then Summers?? chief of staff; and Lucie McNeil, then the president’s press secretary. (Solomon and McNeil both stepped down before the end of the school year, citing reasons unrelated...
...That was a marked shift from Summers?? public statements up until that point. In a letter to the Harvard community released on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2005, the president wrote that he was “wrong to have spoken in a way that has resulted in an unintended signal of discouragement to talented girls and women.” But he did not say that he was wrong, period...