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Pundits the world over reacted to University President Lawrence H. Summers?? resignation two weeks ago in typical fashion. They stereotyped, and they oversimplified...
...they all can’t be right. The sheer number of diametrically opposed morals that columnists drew from Summers?? resignation means that some were actually trying to understand the political situation at Harvard, and some were merely writing on a deadline...
...country’s premier opinion pages made the same contention, attributing Summers?? ouster to the political correctness of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The Wall Street Journal focused on Summers?? encounter with Cornel West, his support of the military, and his comments on the “intrinsic aptitude” of women in science as the causes of Faculty discontent. The Journal portrayed the Faculty as “largely left-wing” with “about as much intellectual diversity as the Pyongyang parliament.” Arguing from...
...Summers?? presidency has consisted of a long series of misguided and ill-conceived decisions and it is time to quietly fill in the grave he has dug for himself and find a president to succeed Dr. Bok who will inspire by example and illumination...
...recent alumnus, and a current graduate student in the Yale University Department of Geology and Geophysics, it makes me more than slightly queasy to see student reactions to President Lawrence Summers?? resignation reflected in the Crimson (“Viva!: Summers?? Image Lives On,” news, Feb.24...