Jeff Jacoby

Anatomy of Summers's fall

By Jeff Jacoby

Globe Columnist / February 26, 2006

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HARVARD'S 27TH president announced his resignation last week, but Lawrence Summers's fall from grace actually began on Oct. 26, 2001, less than four months after his presidency began. That was the date on which he addressed the annual public service awards banquet at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and had the temerity to speak favorably of American patriotism -- and, ... (Full article: 772 words)