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Lawrence Henry ("Larry") Summers (b. 1954) is an economist who served as the Secretary of the Treasury in the final year and a half of the Clinton administration. From there he was selected to be the 27th President of Harvard University, considered to be the top position in academia.
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Lawrence Henry ("Larry") Summers (b. 1954) is an economist who served as the [[United States Secretary of the Treasury|Secretary of the Treasury]] in the final year and a half of the Clinton administration. From there he was selected to be the 27th President of Harvard University, considered to be the top position in academia.
He served as President of Harvard from 2001 to 2006, when he was forced to resign for merely suggesting that the wide disparities between men and women in science, math and engineering may be due to innate differences in their aptitude or preference for those fields. His mere suggestion of this, delivered in a speech to academics, caused an uproar by [[liberals]] that led to his ouster.
He served as President of Harvard from 2001 to 2006, when he was forced to resign for merely suggesting that the wide disparities between men and women in science, math and engineering may be due to innate differences in their aptitude or preference for those fields. His mere suggestion of this, delivered in a speech to academics, caused an uproar by [[liberals]] that led to his ouster.
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