West: Summers=Sharon

Brad DeLong jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu
Tue Apr 16 21:17:49 PDT 2002



>"Larry Summers strikes me as the Ariel Sharon of American higher
>education," Dr. West said today. "He struck me very much as a bull
>in a china shop, and as a bully, in a very delicate and dangerous
>situation."...

Ah. A return to an old tradition: University Professors at Harvard calling people dirty jews. A tradition that I had thought had died out brought to life once again...


>"Professors do not have supervisors, brother," Dr. West said today.
>"Professors are free agents to do their work, because there is a
>trust in their judgment about how they go about doing that work."

Wow. That's a new one. I should tell this to my Department Chairman and my Dean...

Brad DeLong



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