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To: kech who wrote (101809)	2/23/2005 1:06:37 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793843

Apparently there were only about 50 anti-Larry student protestors outside the faculty meaning. Meaning Harvard students are just as lazy and apathetic as students anywhere else <gg>. More seriously however, I think Lawrence Summers is probably a pretty smart person and perhaps pretty good in his field of economics. He was well know for his abrasiveness. They knew that when they hired him. His table manners are terrible (from a new book out). Those shortcomings in and by themselves are nothing much. In the context of the speech he gave, however, all that abrasiveness was there, it seems like, only to hide a lot of insecurities and shortcomings. The man is ignorant. His ignorance of junk science, references of white men in the NBA, and Jewish Farmers, his abrasive style - you come up with a picture of someone that should not be president of Harvard University. Some of his thoughts are not too different than a lot of teenagers that do not know very much about life. He has probably gotten away with a lot of shortcomings because people couldn't really put their finger on what was wrong. But the chickens have now come home to roost. That is the way things happen. That is life. If you are president of Harvard University, you have to kind of know that. I mean, Leona Helmsly was mainly convicted because she was a terrible human being. But, we don't need to feel too sorry for Larry Summers. He is still young. He can learn from his mistakes. He can become useful again. Oly, he doesn't have to be president of Harvard University. And, that should send a message to ignorant teenagers - maybe they have to rethink some of their prejudices.