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boston.com - 11/29/2008
Summers should go, ex-Harvard dean says - The Boston Globe
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When he announced he was stepping down a year ago, Harvard University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Peter T. Ellison didn't detail his reasons, saying only that it was ''appropriate" for administrators to be comfortable with President Lawrence H. Summers's ''style." But yesterday, ...
The temperamentalist - The Boston Globe
boston.com:80 - 11/24/2008
The temperamentalist - The Boston Globe
— boston.com:80 — ATTENTION, NEW PARENTS. Jerome Kagan, a professor emeritus of psychology at Harvard, has devised a fun little... test for you. At 4 months old, plop your baby into a bouncy seat and present him with a series of colorful new toys - ones he's never seen - ... (more) The temperamentalist - The Boston Globe

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Crooked Timber:  Larry Summers Makes Intemperate Remarks About Relative Intelligence Shocker!

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Larry Summers Makes Intemperate Remarks About Relative Intelligence Shocker!
Crooked Timber — Can’t imagine how we missed this the first time around … Over lunch not long after Summers took over the presidency in 2001, Ellison said, Summers suggested that some funds should be moved from a sociology program to the Kennedy School, home to many economists and political scientists. ‘’President Summers asked me, didn’t I agree that, in general, economists are smarter than political scientists, and political scientists are smarter than sociologists?” Ellison said. ‘’To which I laughed nervously ...

Are Political Scientists Stupider than Economists but Smarter than Sociologists?
The Monkey Cage — I don’t usually cross-post, but this comment from Larry Summers perhaps deserves discussion among political scientists too. Over lunch not long after Summers took over the presidency in 2001, Ellison said, Summers suggested that some funds should be moved from a sociology program to the Kennedy School, home to many economists and political scientists. ‘’President Summers asked me, didn’t I agree that, in general, economists are smarter than political scientists, and political scientists are smarter than sociologists?” Ellison said. ‘’To which I laughed ...

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