Beset by critics of his management style and controversial statements, Lawrence Summers announced in February 2006 he would step down as Harvard's president.
(Essdras M Suarez/Globe Staff)
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Beset by critics of his management style and controversial statements, Lawrence Summers announced in February 2006 he would step down as Harvard's president.
(Essdras M Suarez/Globe Staff)
They're moving on. Even some of Lawrence Summers's harshest critics during his stormy five-year tenure as Harvard University's president applauded the announcement yesterday that Summers would become a chief economic adviser to President Barack Obama. More than two years after faculty pressured Summers to resign, many said his new post helping to bolster the nation's sagging economy - rather than ... (Full article: 653 words)
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