And Speaking of Confidentiality
I get e-mail from Harvard folks pretty regularly at my e-mail,
richard@richardbradley.net. Some of this e-mail is from people who don't know me and haven't written me before, and one of the things they want to know is whether these e-mails stay confidential.
The answer is: Yes, absolutely. I take confidentiality extremely seriously, and when it comes to e-mail, I assume that something is intended to be anonymous unless it
explicitly says otherwise.
So keep those comments and tips coming....
Meanwhile, a couple of corrections.
I was wrong to say that no one at Harvard is making lectures available via podcast. A poster below informs me that
Harry Lewis is doing just that. Good for Lewis, who seems to be shaping up as a real alternative, anti-Summers force around Harvard. I can't wait to read his forthcoming book,
Excellence Without a Soul. It seems likely to have a considerable impact on Harvard alums, coming as it does from a man who has spent something like 40 years at the university.
And another clarification: In my post on the Summers-Shleifer conspiracy theory, I theorized that a quote from Summers to Shleifer came from Shleifer, when in fact it came from Larry Summers' deposition in the federal case. (Thanks to the posters who let me know.)
I still wonder, though, if Shleifer doesn't have some leverage over Summers that is impinging on Summers' ability to deal with the Shleifer scandal in an ethical way. The alternative would seem to be just...well...the absence of ethics.
Thanks again to the posters who bring these things to my attention. I try to be more accurate than James Frey, but once in a while, mistakes do creep in...
