Larry Summers' charm offensive

budge budge at el-pleasant.org
Sun Jan 6 09:27:05 PST 2002


On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 at 4:40pm Carl Remick forwarded:


>
> CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 5 — It was undoubtedly the most
> negative publicity Harvard University's new president,
> Lawrence H. Summers, had received in his six months on
> the job. A dust-up with the professor Cornel West and
> complaints that Mr. Summers had snubbed or disappointed
> other celebrated black scholars raised the possibility
> that Harvard would lose the stars of its Afro-American
> studies department.

Corney is on C-SPAN2 now (12:30 EST) and will be for the next 2.5 hrs. He is tip-toing around questions about the controversy at Harvard.

-- no Onan

Undefeated, everybody goes home



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