Thanks to all of you who have reported on some of what’s going on behind the scenes.

Feel free to post your answers on the message board…

1) Which Harvard figures of gravitas and stature are now spending much of their time conversing with members of the Corporation?

2) Which one of Harvard’s most important alumni and donors has now become directly involved in pushing for Summers’ firing or resignation?

3) Which 19th-century American conflict are people now citing as a likely scenario if Summers does not leave?

4) Which president of Harvard either has hired or is considering hiring a personal lawyer?

5) Which university is rumored to have substantially and deliberately over-reported donor contributions, possibly leading to the departure of a high-level administrator who did not want to be associated with the practice?

6) Which high-level Harvard figures believed that they had extracted a promise from Larry Summers to resign in the summer of 2005…only to be stunned when that promise was not honored?

7) What Harvard professor and/or administrator was Larry Summers referring to when, in a phone call from a public place at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he apparently told an aide, “Fuck xxxx”?
The call happened to be picked up by a live microphone nearby….

8) What Harvard president is said to be hunkering down, preparing for a fight, prompting rumors of “an intervention” from people who worry that he does not realize the extremity of the situation?