>Actually this was included as an item in an article
>Summers did for the New Republic, with a title along
>the lines of "ten good taxes" or somesuch. So it
>wasn't exactly a secret.
Oh, I see. An unsigned edit in The Nation is a political appropriation, and one by LS in Peretz' rag isn't.
>That this article never
>surfaced as a bludgeon against Mr. Summers during
>his confirmation hearings may be testimony to his
>bipartisan big-shot status.
Or that he wasn't really serious.
Why *did* Bush pick him to be chief economist of the World Bank, anyway?
Doug