BOSTONIAN OF THE YEAR
The Provocateur
Two words -- "intrinsic aptitude" -- sparked a national debate about women and science and nearly toppled the presidency of Larry Summers.
Around Harvard, they call it 1/14, as in "one-fourteen," the date when everything changed. In part, that's just the World's Greatest University being its parochial self. But it also captures the scale of the explosion sparked by Harvard's president, Larry Summers. (Full article: 718 words)
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