Enjoy the escape, Rich. You've done some very nice work in the past several weeks.
 

The Chronicle of Higher Ed is having a colloquy Thurs afternoon on Summers--and accepting questions now for consideration. It should be interesting.
 

Any info? I have seen reference made to these 2 motions that were to be added to the agenda for the Feb 28th faculty meeting several places now (I quote below from the Chronicle of Higher Education.) Does anyone know if the info is correct? Does anyone know what the actual language of the motions was to be, and which Corporation members (besides Rubin) were to be singled out?
"Next Tuesday's meeting could have proved exceptionally embarrassing to Harvard and to the Harvard Corporation, its seven-member governing board, the professor said, because of other items on the agenda.

Chief among them was to be a motion to censure Mr. Summers for his role in what has become known as the "Shleifer affair," the professor said. Andrei Shleifer, a prominent Harvard economist and personal friend of Mr. Summers, was a defendant in a lawsuit alleging that he and a former staff member had defrauded the U.S. government through a program intended to help Russia make the transition to a market economy.

Harvard defended Mr. Shleifer throughout the litigation and last August agreed to settle the case by paying a $26.5-million penalty. Mr. Shleifer has never been disciplined by Harvard, and in fact was awarded a new chair during the litigation, said the professor who spoke to The Chronicle. As a result, Mr. Shleifer's relationship with Mr. Summers has drawn increasing criticism. The professor said the combination of the penalty and legal fees had cost Harvard $44-million.

Another motion to have been offered at the faculty meeting would have assailed the governing board for inadequate governance, the professor said, and would have singled out members of the Harvard Corporation by name for criticism.

The professor said the information came from conversations with current and former administrators at Harvard and with members of the Harvard Corporation."
 

Blanco Y Negro forever!
 

David Warsh has obviously got good contacts with some economists who have insights into the Shleifer-Summers relationship--he writes about them in his "economics Principals" blog
 

David Warsh got fired from the Boston Globe for making up stories alleging that John Kerry had committed war crimes in Vietnam.
 

The comment by the previous anonymous commenter is scurrilous: Warsh had disagreement with the Globe over the direction of his column. That's all.

Here is the link for the story:
http://www.economicprincipals.com/issues/06.03.05.html
 

Warsh does not have any "contacts" that I can see regarding this matter. He takes other publications and fills in the holes with his own uninformed speculation or that of others, including McClintick's. Very misleading and worthy only of the title of conspiracy theorist. Not surprising that he has been relegated to the blog-o-sphere.