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Summers has drawn headlines since early in his tenure, and his final weeks in office have been no different. He kicked off June by attacking a British professors union??s resolution to boycott Israeli academics who do not denounce “continuing Israeli apartheid policies.” In a statement, Summers called the boycott “anti-Semitic in both effect and in intent...
...represents Harvard’s 470 dining hall workers, boosts salaries by an average of 5.5 percent in the first contract year and 4.5 percent by the contract’s final year, marking a $4.15 per hour increase over five years—double the outcome of the union??s 2001 negotiations. The University also said it would pay workers during the four-day winter recess, a perk already enjoyed by over 10,000 other University employees, and it created new benefits such as a provision allowing workers applying for citizenship to have five unpaid days...
...Britain’s largest unions of university instructors passed a resolution urging its members to boycott speeches by Israeli academics who do not condemn “continuing Israeli apartheid policies, including construction of the exclusion wall and discriminatory educational practice.” Summers called the union??s action “anti-Semitic.” In a statement issued Thursday, Summers said that “there is much that should be, indeed that must be, debated regarding Israeli policy...But the academic boycott resolution passed by the British professors union...
Summers called the union??s action “anti-Semitic...
Galbraith served as Kennedy’s emissary to India from 1961 to 1963. The professor then turned down an offer to become ambassador to the Soviet Union??in part, according to Parker’s biography, because Harvard’s rules bar professors from taking leave for longer than two years...