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Tuesday, May 10, 2005
  Another Harvard Book?
Alex Beam reports in the Globe (scroll to the bottom of his column) that David McClintick may be working on a book about the Harvard-HIID scandal. That would be interesting...although I think that at this point, a book on the Harvard-AIDS scandal would be even better.

Pop quiz: What university president do these two scandals have in common?

Which is—honestly—not to imply that Larry Summers is inherently to blame. Just to point out that this man has got to be the most powerful magnet for controversy in the world of higher education....
 
Comments:
Actually, these two scandals don't have any university president in common. Whatever you may say about Summers' relationship with Shleifer, Summers certainly wasn't responsible for the HIID scandal, since the HIID-Russia contract was revoked and the government filed suit against Harvard before Summers became president...
 
Response to anonymous #1--You can't really distance Summers from the Shleifer scandal, however,when you read Summers' ardent defense of Scleifer...Summers could have had a heart-to-heart with Andre like he had with Cornel (you're not really up to Harvard's standards, etc) but far from that, he has Shleifer's back in the whole controversy....
 
Poster #1 has a point; Summers obviously wasn't involved in the HIID scandal.

But...though he is said to have recused himself from Harvard's handling of the matter, I hear that's not really the case, and that he's been backing Shleifer strongly...

I wonder if Summers response would have been different if the person involved had not been a close friend of his, but was—oh—Cornel West?
 
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