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	Summers' remarks on women draw fire - The Boston Globe
		Summers said he was only putting forward hypotheses based on the scholarly work assembled for the conference, not expressing his own judgments -- in fact, he said, more research needs to be done on these issues.
		Summers has called last year's results, when only four of 32 tenured job offers went to women, unacceptable and promised to work on the problem.
		Summers ended his talk by describing some of the efforts Harvard is making to improve its hiring record and help women balance work and family.
	www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2005/01/17/summers_remarks_on_women_draw_fire (1231 words)

	TCS Daily - Profile in Courage
		The contrast between the splendor of commencement and the purging of Summers is clearly on the minds of everyone in attendance -- students, parents, alumni, faculty, and administrators.
		What endeared Summers so much to students was his fundamental commitment to restoring the noble values of academia -- namely, ensuring that professors actually taught students engaging, challenging material, partook of truly open-minded intellectual inquiry, and resisted the fatuous enticements of simplistic political sloganism.
		Though Summers further aroused the ire of the military's critics when he became the first Harvard president in recent memory to address the new officers, those involved in the ceremony heaped adulation upon him.
	www.tcsdaily.com /article.aspx?id=061606D (962 words)

	RealClearPolitics - Articles - Larry Summers & the Thought Police
		Summers, you'll recall, was driven out of his university post in 2005 after he suggested at a conference that gender differences might account for an underrepresentation by women in science, math and engineering.
		Summers' remarks were seized upon, taken out of context and misinterpreted by many, including one female biologist from MIT, who walked out on the president's talk, later saying that she felt she was either going to faint or throw up.
		Summers' invitation was "not only misguided but inappropriate at a time when the university is searching for a new president and continues to build and diversify its community," the petition said.
	www.realclearpolitics.com /articles/2007/09/larry_summers_the_thought_poli.html (759 words)

	LawCulture: Larry Summers to Resign the Harvard Presidency (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Summers' resignation letter says, "I have reluctantly concluded that the rifts between me and segments of the Arts and Sciences faculty make it infeasible for me to advance the agenda of renewal that I see as crucial to Harvard's future.
		The instigating (but far from sole) issue a year ago was Summers' remarks at a conference suggesting that perhaps women's relatively low presence on mathmatics and science faculties resulted from a combination of (1) their relatively lower interest in high powered jobs that required massive professional commitment; and (2) innate difference in abilities.
		Summers' ever-so-slightly more nuanced version of the second point posited a different degree of variance across the sexes, which would mean that even if women were in aggregate as talented as men in math abilities, they might be underrepresented at the very high and very low ends of mathmatical aptitude.
	lawculture.blogs.com /lawculture/2006/02/larry_summers_t.html (813 words)

	FIRE - Larry Summers and ‘Academia at Its Worst’
		The main pressure appears to have originated with a petition organized by faculty at UC Davis who argued that Summers “has come to symbolize gender and racial prejudice in academia.” His defenders, as well as some of his earlier critics at Harvard, criticized the decision in their remarks to the Harvard Crimson.
		Professor Stanton, a prominent evolutionist, also argued in 2006 that “intelligent design” does not belong in the science classroom (though she acknowledged it was worth discussion elsewhere), because it does not reflect “what scientific inquiry really is,” with “open-minded, unbiased evaluation of evidence”—to quote the report on her public lecture at the time.
		Larry Summers was being open-minded and unbiased in reflecting on the evidence behind his ideas about women in science.
	www.thefire.org /index.php/article/8399.html (399 words)

	Aging Disgracefully: Larry Summers learns a lesson
		Summers had offered a number of possible explanations for the gap (more to stimulate further research than argue for any of them).* Summers has something of a reputation as a provacateur in terms of stimulating research.
		Georgi had e-mailed Dr. Summers earlier in the week, saying he thought that it had been a mistake for the Harvard president to speak as an intellectual provocateur during his remarks at the academic conference, forgetting that they would be interpreted as the beliefs of the university's leader.
		Summers did in fact focus in one part of his talk on the sort of structural/social issues to which you refer.
	aging-disgracefully.com /blog/archives/2005/01/larry_summers_l.html (2131 words)

	Larry Summers
		Summers' career has been marked by periodic protest due to his unflagging commitment to letting the market decide'.
		Summers, the former chief economist of the World Bank and most recently Treasury Secretary in the Clinton cabinet, has managed to land on his feet after the Bush coup d'etat in Florida.
		Summers was reportedly furious and demanded that Stiglitz be silenced.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Zeroes/Larry_Summers.html (750 words)

	Speech transcript stokes opposition to Harvard head: Nature
		Some faculty were considering calling for a vote of no confidence in Larry Summers at a special meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences due to take place on 22 February, although there are indications that such a vote may not take place until next month.
		National controversy continues to rage over Summers' comments, in which he suggested that differences in "intrinsic aptitude" might be a key factor behind the scarcity of women in science, outweighing the impact of gender discrimination.
		Summers' position was damaged by a stormy, closed-faculty meeting on 15 February, at which many criticized what they see as his autocratic management style (see Nature 433, 190–192; 2005).
	www.nature.com /nature/journal/v433/n7028/full/433790a.html (406 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Larry Summers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Summers is the son of two economists, as well as the nephew of two Nobel laureates in economics: Paul Samuelson (sibling of father Robert Summers, who changed the family name from Samuelson to Summers to avoid anti-Semitic prejudice) and Kenneth Arrow (his mother's sibling).
		Summers is a steadfast defender of free trade and globalization, and his positions on a number of politically-charged subjects tend to lie to the right of the average members of American academia.
		In 2002, Summers controversially stated that a campaign by Harvard and MIT faculty to have their universities divest from companies with Israeli holdings was "anti-Semitic in effect, if not in intention".
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/larry_summers (2000 words)

	The End Of Summers , WS: What Larry Summers' Resignation Means For Harvard - CBS News
		Larry Summers, the embattled Harvard University president, says he is leaving at the end of the school year.
		So Summers already had a sizeable group of enemies by the time he stood before an academic conference and mused that a contributing factor to the under-representation of women in the hard sciences might perhaps be due to different intrinsic abilities between the sexes.
		Summers' detractors on the faculty were quite clear all along that there was no way their relationship with their president could be mended.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/02/22/opinion/main1336989.shtml (977 words)

	Summers, Trade, Treasury (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Summers, currently the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Dept., is President Clinton's nominee to replace Mr.
		Summers' Harvard-trained "economic logic" ruminations about dumping rich countries' poisons on their poorer neighbors, and agreed to ban the export of hazardous wastes from OECD to non-OECD countries under the Basel Convention.
		Summers remained in the World Bank before joining the Clinton administration and continuing his incredible rise toward the Cabinet.
	www.globalpolicy.org /socecon/envronmt/summers.htm (726 words)

	U.S. Treasury - Biography of Secretary Lawrence Summers
		Lawrence H. Summers was sworn in as the 71st Secretary of the Treasury in July 1999 after serving as undersecretary for international affairs and deputy secretary of the Treasury.
		Summers led efforts to modernize the financial system, extend financial privacy protections, provide for digital signatures, and insure the viability of the over-the-counter derivatives market.
		Summers was a key figure domestically and internationally in securing significant expansion in debt relief for the world’s poorest and most indebted countries—a measure that led to the increased availability of funds for primary health care and education in a number of countries.
	www.ustreas.gov /education/history/secretaries/lhsummers.shtml (508 words)

	The American Enterprise: The Departure of Larry Summers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In speech after speech, Summers had been willing to take on the politically correct orthodoxies of the day and offer contrasting perspectives that, until recently, were deemed the very essence of a liberal education.
		Summers dared to speak the unspeakable when he noted the divide that separates university elites and mainstream America.
		Summers outlined early his hopes that the faculty would “think more rigorously about the level of mastery we ask of our students,” and that “achieving knowledge in key areas would be a crucial element in the general education component.”
	taemag.com /issues/articleID.19022/article_detail.asp (861 words)

	The Subject Larry Summers Failed
		Summers is being forced to resign because, as brilliant as he is -- and you don't become a tenured Harvard professor at 28, as Summers did, unless you're ridiculously brilliant -- he proved to be a terrible politician.
		Summers came to be seen as the champion of those who believe that elite American campuses are under the evil sway of a smug, leftist, feminist, multi-culti, Brie-eating, Chablis-swilling, Prius-driving professoriate that's hopelessly out of touch with mainstream America.
		Summers was at least right on the issue, but similarly impolitic, when he lobbed the incendiary word "anti-Semitic" into remarks about what he saw as an anti-Israel bias among some academics.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/23/AR2006022301432.html (796 words)

	Lawrence Summers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Summers is a zealous proponent of free trade and globalization, and frequently takes positions on a number of politically-charged subjects.
		While many in the media have focused upon the controversial statements made by Summers or his political disagreement with left-leaning members of the faculty, it is also possible that these factors merely provided a pretext for members of the faculty to express their dissatisfaction with other aspects of Summers's presidency.
		Summers proposed that more emphasis be put on undergraduate education and requested that professors actually teach their undergraduate classes, as opposed to conferring responsibility on teaching assistants.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Larry_Summers (1858 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Summers' Comments on Women and Science Draw Ire
		Early in his speech, Summers noted that women remain underrepresented in the upper echelons of academic and professional life—in part, he said, because many women with young children are unwilling or unable to put in the 80-hour work-weeks needed to succeed in those fields.
		Summers referred repeatedly to the work of University of Michigan sociologist Yu Xie and his University of California-Davis colleague Kimberlee A. Shauman, who have found that women make up 35 percent of faculty at universities across the country, but only 20 percent of professors in science and engineering.
		Hopkins said she mentioned the Summers speech in an e-mail exchange relating to another matter with Boston Globe reporter Marcella Bombardieri on Friday—but that she did not intend for her sentiments to spark the media circus that is already underway.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=505349 (1150 words)

	AtlanticBlog: Larry Summers
		Larry Summers apppears to be turning into quite possibly a good president of Harvard, and very certainly an influential one.
		Larry Summers is not just an economist but, as one of his critics put it, an economist economist.
		Summers made it plain to Henry Louis Gates Jr., the chairman and builder of the Afro-American studies department, that henceforward the department would be subject to ''the same kind of standards and expectations,'' as he puts it, that applied to the rest of the university.
	www.atlanticblog.com /archives/001083.html (548 words)

	The pseudo-feminist show trial of Larry Summers. - By William Saletan - Slate Magazine
		Larry Summers, the president of Harvard, suggested the other day that innate differences between the sexes might help explain why relatively few women become professional scientists or engineers.
		Summers said repeatedly that Harvard and other schools should work to eliminate discrimination.
		Already Summers is being forced to apologize, in the style of a Communist show trial, for sending "an unintended signal of discouragement to talented girls and women." But the best signal to send to talented girls and boys is that science isn't about respecting sensitivities.
	www.slate.com /id/2112570 (1102 words)

	Shots In The Dark: Larry Summers on the Slopes
		That argument is complicated by the fact that Summers blew off a meeting with the Institute of Politics fellows and an announcement with the mayor of Boston regarding Allston developments.
		That excuse is laughable—not least because Summers and Menino don't much care for each other, and Harvard wouldn't want to snub the mayor by, say, calling him up and saying that Larry Summers can't come to a joint announcement because he's in Utah skiing.
		Summers may well just be daring the Corporation to fire him for the reason you suggest.
	richardbradley.net /2006/02/larry-summers-on-slopes.html (2059 words)

	Velvel on National Affairs: Re: Larry Tribe, Larry Summers, And Elena Kagan: Because Of The Larry Tribe Affair, It Is ...
		Summers and Kagan were not the only ones to put their names to a statement dated April 13th and issued April 14th.
		My own view about Summers began to crystallize when it became obvious, in the last month or two of 2004, that there would be little if any punishment meted out for the Ogletree and Tribe transgressions, and that Summers was not even going to announce whether a disciplinary committee was looking into these matters.
		Then, when Summers later made his comments about women in science and mathematics, this writer, after many others had denounced Summers’ fallacies about women’s supposed lack of ability, wrote a lengthy blog dealing with other aspects of his infamous talk and with other aspects of his life and character.
	velvelonnationalaffairs.blogspot.com /2005/04/re-larry-tribe-larry-summers-and-elena_22.html (7424 words)

	The Little Green Blog: Larry Summers Post Mortem
		Summers is in this position not entirely due to his remarks about women and science, but that sure provided a convenient cover for anyone who didn't like him.
		Summers does not deserve to be a martyr in the cause against academic close-mindedness.
		Summers lands fairly softly; he is expected to stay on the faculty (after a year-long sabbatical) as a University Professor, which is a pretty big deal in itself and, ironically, what Cornel West was before Summers drove him out.
	thelittlegreenblog.blogspot.com /2006/02/larry-summers-post-mortem.html (500 words)

	Larry Summers's Ghosts
		I'll leave it to you to decide whether Larry Summers is the kind of guy who would take the flak for 15 long years over a **doctored forgery.
		Summers used his position to sing the praises of the so-called "energetic young reformers" — a phrase Boris Yeltsin helped coin that these days is rarely spoken in Russian circles except as a sarcastic insult.
		Summers was fired becasue the centrist Democrats are being led around by the fringe.
	www.thenation.com /blogs/edcut?bid=7&pid=62701 (1718 words)

	The Reality-Based Community: Larry Summers's gaffe
		I was planning to let Larry Summers's latest "gaffe" (in Kinsley's sense of an imprudent statement of the truth) go without comment.
		Anything that keeps Summers busy answering critics instead of trying to raid my colleagues is probably good for the planet.
		Summers does or should realize that he is never speaking just as an intellectual or as an economist, and that it is possible (and I mean possible) that his comments were incompatible with his role as President.
	www.samefacts.com /archives/_/2005/01/larry_summerss_gaffe.php (693 words)

	Larry Summers - By David Plotz - Slate Magazine
		Summers designed the bailout when the Mexican economy collapsed and was the architect of the Asia rescue in 1998.
		Summers had a poisonous reputation on Capitol Hill and an unsteady status in the White House—protected by his brilliance and by Rubin, but distrusted.
		And Summers ought to be able to shunt much day-to-day administration onto his provost.
	slate.msn.com /id/111151 (1764 words)

	nospeedbumps.com » Blog Archive » Running Larry Summers Out of Town
		Summers committed the cardinal sin against the academic hard left: He expressed politically incorrect views regarding gender, race, religion, sexual preference, and the military.” – Harvard Law Prof.
		The breaking point began to unfold when Summers dared to entertain as a possible hypothesis that there might be inherent differences between men and women, which in turn might affect the success females experience in mathematical and scientific endeavors.
		Larry Summers, by the way, was a democrat.
	nospeedbumps.com /?p=705 (651 words)

	A Conservative Woman Analyzes Larry Summers' Remarks About Women - Rachel Alexander (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Larry Summers, the President of Harvard, has come under fire from feminists for suggesting that women have not excelled as well as men in science and engineering because of inferior intrinsic aptitude, among other reasons.
		Where Summers got into trouble, however, was declaring as if it were a fact that minute physical differences between the brains is unequivocal evidence that men’s excelling in certain areas over women is because of innate differences — not just a result of societal or cultural influences.
		Summers dug himself deeper into a hole when he used his daughters’ preference for dolls as evidence why women must have inferior innate abilities in math and science than men.
	www.americandaily.com /article/7046 (1321 words)

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