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	U.S. Treasury - Biography of Secretary Lawrence H. Summers
		Summers was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal given every two years to the outstanding American economist under the age of 40.
		Summers served as Domestic Policy Economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisers during 1982-1983 and served on the MIT faculty from 1979 to 1982.
		Summers was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1954.
	www.ustreas.gov /education/history/secretaries/lhsummers.html (355 words)

	Lawrence Summers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Summers resigned as President of Harvard on June 30, 2006, and was replaced by former University President Derek Bok as acting Interim President the next day.
		Summers left Harvard in 1991 and served as Chief Economist for the World Bank (1991–1993) and later in various posts in the United States Department of the Treasury under the Clinton administration.
		Summers is a zealous proponent of free trade and globalization, and frequently takes positions on a number of politically-charged subjects outside his specialty.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lawrence_Summers (1828 words)

	Summers hits 'anti-Semitic' actions - Campus Watch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Summers, who holds perhaps the most visible bully pulpit in American intellectual life, told an audience at Harvard's Memorial Church Tuesday that recent calls for Harvard, Tufts, Princeton, and other schools to divest from Israel were anti-Semitic.
		Summers had previously rejected a divestment petition signed by 69 Harvard professors, but he is rarely so publicly critical of Harvard faculty and students.
		The Summers speech, which was first reported yesterday by the Harvard Crimson, comes as the Israeli divestment campaign has spread to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which drew support from 55 faculty members, as well as to Tufts, Cornell, Princeton, and the University of California system.
	www.campus-watch.org /article/id/126 (922 words)

	GSReport:Dumping Waste (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Lawrence Summers, soon to become U.S. Treasury Secretary, showed his disdain for the have-nots of the world in a 1991 memo that enraged environmentalists.
		Lawrence Summers, the man slated to become the next U.S. Treasury Secretary, is a 44-year-old academic who has served as Deputy Treasury Secretary for the past four years under Robert Rubin, who is leaving Treasury later this summer.
		As Lawrence Summers prepares to take on one of the most powerful posts in the U.S. government, it is instructive to review his private thinking on the relationship between the powerful and the powerless.
	www.gsreport.com /articles/art000171.html (1129 words)

	Choose to Save Forum - Biography of Lawrence Summers
		LAWRENCE H. Lawrence H. Summers was sworn in as the 71st Secretary of the Treasury on July 2, 1999.
		Summers served as a Domestic Policy Economist on the Presidents Council of Economic Advisers from 1982 to 1983 and served on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology economics department from 1979 to 1982.
		Summers received a B.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1982.
	www.choosetosave.org /wdc/forum/lhs-bio.htm (396 words)

	Lawrence Summers: A Tough Guy at Treasury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Summers, in short, is not one of those people about whom Washingtonians or economists have neutral opinions.
		Summers' style put him in conflict with another prominent Ivy League economist, Alan Blinder of Princeton, who came to Washington in 1993 as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers and then was named vice chairman of the Federal Reserve.
		Summers' life is increasingly rooted in Washington -- his wife, Victoria, is a tax expert working at the IMF, and his weekends are spent between tennis games ("I'm better than you'd think, looking at me," he says) and doting over his children, 7-year-old twin daughters and a 4-year-old son.
	www-personal.umd.umich.edu /~mtwomey/newspapers/1105summ.html (1756 words)

	Center for Global Development : Article: Developing Countries Should Diversify Out of U.S. Treasury Bills: Lawrence ...
		Summers presented a series of slides showing that developing country reserves had reached historically unprecedented levels, not only in the very large economies such as China and India, but even in some smaller African economies, such as Botswana, Lesotho and Nigeria.
		Summers, who was speaking at the first annual lecture in memory of CGD founding board member Richard Sabot, said that by diversifying even a small portion of their reserves into an international portfolio, developing countries could diversify their foreign currency exposures.
		Summers said that moves to diversify reserves out of U.S. Treasury bills were already underway in a handful of countries, including Norway, Singapore and, at a lower level, South Korea.
	www.cgdev.org /content/article/detail/8373 (623 words)

	cbs4boston.com - Harvard President Lawrence Summers Quits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Summers also expressed regret over what he called the "rifts and cleavages" with arts and sciences faculty that emerged during his five year tenure and that, he said, made it difficult for him to advance his agenda.
		Summers, a former U.S. Treasury secretary in the Clinton Administration, was a prominent economist when he became Harvard's 27th president after Neil L. Rudenstine announced in May 2001 his resignation after nearly a decade.
		Summers, a New Haven, Conn.-native, also was a former professor of economics at Harvard, and said he'll return to teaching there after a year sabbatical.
	cbs4boston.com /topstories/local_story_052073627.html (792 words)

	OpinionJournal - Extra
		Summers himself has on occasion advanced the view that affirmative-action procedures for women are necessary because of men's unconscious bias.
		Summers was corroborated when the same Harvard women's group that is lobbying for more female professors reproached him for "speaking his mind as an individual" last week rather than toeing what they believe should be the university's party line.
		Summers who owes women an apology; it is the complainers and agitators who owe both him and all of us an apology for trying to shut down discussion of an "inequality" that is not likely to disappear.
	www.opinionjournal.com /extra/?id=110006196 (1128 words)

	USATODAY.com - Gender disparity on display (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This debate took center stage Friday when Harvard University president Lawrence Summers told the audience at an economics conference that innate differences between the sexes might be a reason.
		In a written statement, Summers said he was trying to note "in the spirit of academic inquiry" that a variety of factors could be responsible for the gender disparity.
		Summers also expressed doubt that discrimination is to blame for the dearth of women in science and medicine at the top universities.
	www.usatoday.com /news/education/2005-01-19-summers_x.htm (668 words)

	Andrew Moroz's Blog: Lawrence Summers (***) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)*
		Among his critics on the faculty, the current outrage against Dr. Summers amounts to a culmination of reaction to three years of sharp-edged remarks, actions and displays of attitude by the Harvard president that to these professors have been divisive and unworthy of one of the world's leading universities.
		Wisse said that feminists are offended by Summers’ discounting of discrimination as a significant factor in the underrepresentation of women in science because his statements undermine their life’s work attempting to prove that discrimination exists.
		Summers has also taken on such issues as grade inflation and the generally liberal leanings of the school's faculty.
	www.princeton.edu /~amoroz/2005/02/lawrence-summers.html (1539 words)

	The Chronicle: 4/26/2002: Lawrence Summers and His Tough Questions
		Summers issue a statement backing affirmative action with clarity that is in line with the statements of his predecessors, Neil L. Rudenstine and Derek C. Bok.
		Summers as a reason for his leaving, but Harvard realizes there is a perception that it is losing some of its stars.
		Summers says he is hopeful that a new policy on grading and honors can be put to a vote of the faculty before the end of this academic year.
	chronicle.com /free/v48/i33/33a02901.htm (4054 words)

	National Press Club -- Lawrence Summers
		Summers is the chief financial officer of the federal government.
		The pressure is on Summers and Greenspan to continue the economic success without triggering inflation.
		Summers was a professor of economics at Harvard University.
	www.npr.org /programs/npc/2000/000503.lsummers.html (392 words)

	Harvard Chief's Comments on Women Assailed (washingtonpost.com)
		Some at Harvard view Summers as a brilliant administrator who is not afraid to say what he thinks and is bringing a much-needed breath of fresh air to a revered but stodgy academic institution.
		In an interview yesterday, Summers said some critics had erroneously interpreted his remarks as "suggesting that women can't do science" or that he was "fatalistic" about the university's ability to attract top female scientists.
		One of the women sharply critical of Summers at the meeting was Denice D. Denton, chancellor-designate of the University of California at Santa Cruz.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A19181-2005Jan18.html (990 words)

	The Jackson Progressive: The Lawrence Summers Memo
		Back on December 12, 1991, the chief economist for the World Bank, Lawrence Summers, wrote an internal memo that was leaked to the environmental community, and we, in turn, publicized it.
		Summers, currently the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Dept., is Pres.
		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.
	www.jacksonprogressive.com /issues/summersmemo.html (732 words)

	Our Words: The Lawrence Summers Memo
		The problem with the arguments against all of these proposals for more pollution in LDCs (intrinsic rights to certain goods, moral reasons, social concerns, lack of adequate markets, etc.) could be turned around and used more or less effectively against every Bank proposal for liberalization.
		Your thoughts [provide] a concrete example of the unbelievable alienation, reductionist thinking, social ruthlessness and the arrogant ignorance of many conventional 'economists' concerning the nature of the world we live in...
		Summers, on the other hand, was appointed the U.S. Treasury Secretary on July 2nd, 1999, and served through the remainder of the Clinton Admistration.
	www.whirledbank.org /ourwords/summers.html (495 words)

	U-WIRE.com/COLUMN: Exposing anti-Semitism on college campuses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Summers got it right, and these issues need to be addressed by examining the issue of anti-Semitism on the anti-Israel movement.
		Summers' speech should instead be looked at as one by an intellectual who is rightfully concerned with the recent surge of anti-Semitism on college campuses.
		Summers should be commended for his bravery in raising an important issue.
	www.uwire.com /content/topops101102002.html (756 words)

	OnTheCommons.org \| Lawrence Summers: It's The Economics, Stupid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Lawrence Summers, the Harvard president, has resigned, and the story quickly has become how the political correctness crowd hounded the poor man out.
		Summers once explained to a Harvard dean why he wanted to move funds from the sociology department to the Kennedy School of Government, where it would go to economists and political scientists.
		Summers’ problem was not just his unfortunate statements regarding such things as the scientific abilities of women.
	onthecommons.org /node/833 (690 words)

	WorldNetDaily: R.I.P. Harvard President Lawrence Summers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In January 2002, Summers further endeared himself to the faculty by speaking out against Harvard's massive grade inflation (Harvard allots 50 percent of its grades to A's and A-minuses).
		Eventually, Summers retreated from his comments, and the university decided to allocate $50 million to attract women to the university's science programs.
		And despite the fact that three out of four Harvard students supported Summers, despite the fact that deans at every graduate school supported him, despite the fact that Summers has restored Harvard's image as a moderate left – not radical left – institution, this is the end for El Presidente.
	worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48949 (628 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Politics -- The Administration, Lawrence Summers
		President Clinton announced May 12 that Lawrence Summers would be nominated to succeed Robert Rubin as Treasury Secretary, giving the 44-year-old ex-Harvard University economist a job he had long wanted, in the midst of a vibrant economy.
		Summers had established himself as the intellectual powerhouse of the Clinton administration's economic team by the time he came to the position.
		Summers was Harvard University's youngest tenured professor ever at age 28.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/politics/govt/admin/summers.htm (194 words)

	Forum 2004 - Highlights - Every Child Getting Ahead: The Role of Education
		I am honored to be here today, representing Harvard at this celebration of the College Board's half century of working to promote high standards and equal opportunity in American higher education.
		Just last week, I met with a group of Harvard undergraduates who are helping us as part of our low-income initiative to find talented students from across the country and make sure they get connected to the college admissions process.
		These students placed thousands of phone calls and e-mails over the summer to students who showed strong academic promise but might not imagine that Harvard could be a real possibility for them.
	www.collegeboard.com /forum/forum04/high/summers.html (2520 words)

	The Lawrence Summers I Knew \| keithboykin.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The tension was also noticeable as Summers stood before an audience that included one of the nation's most recognized fl intellectuals, Cornel West, who had left Harvard for Princeton to get away from Summers.
		Summers was a noted economist and an adviser to Governor Dukakis.
		Summers is still a very intelligent man, but intelligence is not enough to be the president of a major university.
	www.keithboykin.com /arch/2006/02/22/the_lawrence_su (1220 words)

	TCS Daily - Lawrence Summers as Martin Luther
		When the Harvard Faculty conducted its Diet of Worms and voted "no confidence" in its President, Lawrence Summers, perhaps this was equivalent to excommunicating Martin Luther.
		Lawrence Summers has rejected some of the sacraments of the academic clerisy.
		Perhaps Summers has not yet reached the point of exasperation that caused Luther to excommunicate the excommunicators (for a while, Luther himself seemed amenable to mending fences).
	www.tcsdaily.com /article.aspx?id=032405B (893 words)

	25 Years of Monitoring the Multinationals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Now president of Harvard University, Lawrence Summers in January burst on the front pages of U.S. newspapers with controversial remarks about women in the sciences and engineering.
		After demands grew on the Harvard campus for a transcript of the remarks to be disclosed, Summers’ office did make the transcript public.
		Summers apologized for the comments and promised to govern the university with a new tone.
	multinationalmonitor.org /mm2005/012005/summers.html (516 words)

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