[Marxism] "Your reasoning is perfectly logical but totally insane..."

[Brian Shannon <Brian_Shannon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Your reasoning is perfectly logical but totally insane... Your 
thoughts [provide] a concrete example of the unbelievable alienation, 
reductionist thinking, social ruthlessness and the arrogant ignorance 
of many conventional 'economists' concerning the nature of the world we 
live in... If the World Bank keeps you as vice president it will lose 
all credibility. To me it would confirm what I often said... the best 
thing that could happen would be for the Bank to disappear."
--1992, Brazil's then-Secretary of the Environment Jose Lutzenburger on 
Harvard's President Lawrence Summer [He knew the man before we did.]
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Apparently Summers has never encountered the real world. Why was he 
ever picked as the president of the U.S.'s most noted university? Here 
is own approved resume: http://www.president.harvard.edu/biography/

Princeton [the beneficiary of his earlier dissing of Harvard's 
African-American professors] gleefully turns the screws:

THE PRINCETONIAN
Harvard president Lawrence Summers apologized for the third time 
Thursday after his suggestion of "innate" differences between men and 
women in math and science touched off a firestorm of criticism at 
Princeton and around the country. "I deeply regret the impact of my 
comments and apologize for not having weighed them more carefully," 
Summers wrote in a letter to the Harvard community. "I was wrong to 
have spoken in a way that has resulted in an unintended signal of 
discouragement to talented girls and women."

As the media frenzy continued, some female professors and 
administrators at Princeton joined their colleagues at Harvard in 
condemning the comments. Summers had already come under criticism for 
the steady decline in the proportion of tenure offers to women — to 11 
percent last year from 37 percent in 2000-01 — that has occurred under 
his administration. Maria Klawe, dean of Princeton's School of 
Engineering and Applied Science, called the remarks "irresponsible and 
damaging."
FULL at
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2005/01/17/news/11833.shtml
OR http://makeashorterlink.com/?J31E22B4A


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