He’s Killing Them in Asia
Posted on April 17th, 2007 in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »
Larry Summers is hugely popular in India, China and other Asian nations, according to the International Herald Tribune.
It is going to be so interesting when Summers returns to Cambridge! He has done an impressive job of rebuilding his reputation everywhere outside 02138 (and, to some extent, inside it). He goes to Davos, to the Aspen Institute, to Washingtonâall places that play to his strengths. His column in the FT seems to be well-liked. He may or may not be writing a book.
I can’t help but think that his presence at Harvard is going to be tricky for Drew Faust, who has many merits of her own but can not match Summers in terms of ability to make news and sheer intellectual firepower.
4 Responses
4/17/2007 9:01 am
Yikes. In light of the last thread but one, the title you’ve chosen for this post seems to invoke, quite tastelessly, a different President.
Unintentional surely.
SE
4/17/2007 9:02 am
Unintentional, yes. Violence may just be on/in my mind this morning.
4/17/2007 9:36 am
“sheer intellectual firepower”—if there was one thing to be learned from summers’ presidency, it was that sheer intellectual firepower counts for nothing in the absence of common sense or basic civility. and many wonder if sheer intellectual firepower was nothing more than assertiveness run amok.
4/17/2007 10:19 am
If Summers is so popular outside of Harvard, why won’t someone offer him a job so that he can LEAVE? He’s like a guy who can’t move on when the girl has told him that it’s over. Instead, he keeps calling the girl, criticizing her new boyfriend, and haunting her steps.
Summers fans: please send job offers that will help the guy move on and regain some dignity.