Summers Catches a Break
Two interesting developments today.
First: Every morning the Harvard News Office distributes an e-mailed compilation of print media stories about Harvard. As you might imagine, during the last few weeks this "Harvard in the News" list has been filled with stories of Summers and controversy. (And the list is far from complete—it omits magazines and a lot of web-only pieces.)
Today, for the first time in a couple months, there is not one story about Summers and women, Summers and the faculty—nothing.
Alright, there is one Art Buchwald column, but that doesn't count.
The absence of bad news is good news for Summers. Then there's the presence of good news, which is more good news. (Got that?) The New York Times
reports that Harvard led all universities in fundraising last year, raking in a whopping $540 million. (Now, there's the Harvard we know and love.) Stanford is nipping at Harvard's heels with $524 million...
The really interesting numbers will come out a year from now, when we get a sense of how much the current brouhaha has affected Harvard's money-machine. But all in all, a good day for Larry Summers.
