Sunday, February 26, 2006   Worldwide cartoon death toll to date
(according to The Hindu, India): "at least 127."  Summers
Resigns  Harvard President Lawrence Summers resigned last week
as the controversies heated up by his five-year reign came to a
boil. There an interesting post-mortem on Summers as manager and
leader in the New York Times. Also, Alan Dershowitz, a Summers
supporter at Harvard, has an understandably angry op-ed piece in
the Boston Globe, which (like everything Alan writes) is well
worth reading. Summers got his Warholian fifteen minutes last
year when he suggested that one reason why there are fewer women
than men in the hard sciences, along with several others that he
discussed at some length, might be a lower aptitude for math.
My own take? It might be possible (just barely) for a University
CEO with Summers' opinions to survive, but he or she would have
to be a much, much smoother operator than Summers was. But then,
smooth operators generally avoid having such opinions. That's
the ulti