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That year, Summers served as Clinton’s point-man on a controversial effort to bail out the heavily indebted Mexican government. The Clinton administration bypassed the Republican-controlled Congress in the face of vehement GOP opposition to the bailout plan—a maneuver that didn’t endear Summers to Republicans on the Hill or their allies in the press corps...
...butter liberal causes such as affirmative action and stem cell research. In March 2003, he co-authored a New York Times op-ed vociferously defending the University of Michigan’s use of racial preferences in its admissions process. And this year, he has emerged as a vehement critic of Bush administration prohibitions against scientific experimentation on human embryos...
Rallying together in vehement reaction to the Forum’s elimination, students formed organizations they hoped would help coordinate events targeted at women...
Professor of Psychology Elizabeth S. Spelke disputed the findings of various studies used to support arguments for innate gender differences in cognition. She directed particularly vehement criticisms at Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker, whose book The Blank Slate formed the basis for some of Summers’ remarks about “intrinsic aptitude...
...biologist Nancy Hopkins ’64, who helped spark the controversy about Summers remarks with her vehement criticism, said that in her experience as a woman in science, women are not treated equally...