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Lawrence H. Summers @LHSummers I found this article by a former Harvard Crimson President very disturbing. The moral bankruptcy that led the Crimson to endorse BDS some time ago, without subsequent withdrawal, appears to have spread to the news pages. (I have shared Stoll's article to several at the Crimson without substantive response and this tracks with the things I have observed.) Many of the students I have engaged with at the Crimson have high integrity and smarts but I do hope alumni trustees will investigate and take any necessary steps lest a problematic situation deteriorate further.

News Opinion Arts Blog Magazine Metro Multimedia Sports Newsletter Office Hours Editor's Pick Tips Donate Career Guide Please disable your ad blocker for The Crimson. As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein.

Larry Summers (Nov. 10): The trustees need to investigate the Harvard Crimson!

Harvard Crimson (Nov. 16): Mr. Summers, while we have your attention...

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Faculty discipline committees should really normalize de-tenuring/dismissal investigations for the sort of behavior described in the Summers case

Peter Wollny, head of the Bach Archive, is now telling the story of how he concluded that these pieces were written by Bach, first by documentary scholarship and then by signature techniques of the young Bach

"I would take a bullet for you,” the Politician said. He always said that. “Please don’t say that,” I said. I always said that. From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible. I did not like to think about it. About the armed man at his speech. Or the armed man who broke into his home. Or the armed men he paid to guard him from armed men who sought to harm him while the federal government denied his pleas for protection from the security agency whose modern protocols were carved by the same bullets that cut boughs from his family tree and cut the track of the American experiment.

I regret to inform you that Olivia Nuzzi's book appears to be Perfect

insane, stupid, comically overwritten, dishy, politically indefensible I cannot wait to get my hands on it I must accept this is who I am as a person at some deep level whether I like it or not www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...

SOMEONE: Fuck you!

BOVINO: That’s not very nice.

THE MOST MOM VOICE YOU’VE EVER HEARD: Well, are you doing nice things?

reminder that Dubs, Washington’s live mascot, is an ABSOLUTE UNIT

69) Historians are not going to treat Roy Thomas nicely.

Sort of like what's happened with Stan Lee, as more of the details of Thomas' writing and editorial practices come to light, serious questions arise about some of his claims that are going to force a re-evaluation of his legacy.

The Daily Donohue Columbia Spectator DONOHUE: Look, just hold on here. You had your time. Look, the kid's a phony and here's why. I dealt with him earlier tod

crooksandliars.com/2007/02/13/t...

I remember when he got extremely mad at the Columbia University Marching Band and went on TV to be mad about it

Ahhhh good ol’ Bill Donahue, haven’t heard that name in a while

"Bill Clinton wasn't in the Epstein files but Ken Starr WAS" is the most ridiculous postscript The 90s could possibly have. I can't even explain it if you weren't there. It's EVERY BIT as "That chapter is OVER, actually"-feeling as Mamdani winning in NYC the day Cheney died was for "The 2000s."

Toad sits glumly on his bed while Frog looks on. From "Tomorrow" In *Days with Frog and Toad*

Toad sat on the edge of his bed. “Blah,” said Toad. “I feel down in the dumps.”

“Why?” asked Frog.

“I am thinking about tomorrow,” said Toad.

DOGSHIT FIT. DUNGEON 1 MILLION YEARS

It’s so bad holy shit

Story says: Headline "The Final Day" Then: The Final Day Rachel went to meet with the DOJ lawyers the next day—Thursday, June 26th. That morning, an article came out in the NY Times describing how DOJ lawyers were pressuring me to resign. I still have no idea who leaked the story. At around 1pm on Thursday, I was called by Rachel and the two outside lawyers, Jack and Farnaz, who attended the meeting with Rachel. I was told that the DOJ lawyers were very upset with the leaked story in the Times and that the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA. I also needed my resignation to be effective prior to the students returning. If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate. I was then told that the DOJ had offered an amazing deal—unlike any the lawyers had ever seen, in their words. They were basically willing to grant UVA blanket immunity—all of the inquires and investigations would be suspended, no financial penalties would be imposed, and agencies would be told not to cut off our research funding. They said they had never seen or heard about such a great deal for any university. Rachel praised the lawyers for their astute and savvy bargaining, and I was told this was an amazing deal.

1) 'Why I Resigned' from UVa Prez 100% worth reading www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

2) Events were forced by NYT story w leaked info that he was under pressure to resign. UVa prez has 'no idea' where leaks came from (See below.)

3) FWIW same NYT team did leaked "Harvard will cave" stories

Even with all the newfangled duty support let me tell you I saw some Things in the course of 2000 mentor roulettes

obligatory:

capping a week of stories about elite depravity with a story about a journalist who broke basically every possible ethical rule (and was rewarded for it) to elevate an unqualified wealthy failson who is trying to destroy american public health is, well, it's a lot, tbh

It's funny how the ideological split between Twitter and Bluesky has done nothing to stop the power users of both sites from being convinced that leadership is personally conspiring against them in particular.

a fake book Crashing Out on Main A guide for busy professionals Part of a Bluesky Educational Series with the Bluesky logo the background image is a stock image of journalism in the 1980s on some ancient device resembling a PC

Wow. Those Helms NEA hearings were really crucial to my teenage political education, but I guess “Piss Christ” was just proto-edge lord BS.

Omg the booties

a lot of these people try to spin their retrograde attitudes about gender as a form of women's empowerment by appealing to the idea that femininity has been undervalued. but they don't want to elevate the status of femininity, they just want women to be more feminine so they can undervalue them

in a normal society youd get some kind of special commendation for having documented evidence of these people hating you

Democratic parties, civic activists, and regime prisoner families announced a march from TSU to the Parliament on November 28, 19:00.

November 28 will mark exactly 1 year of daily uninterrupted protests in Georgia - an unprecedented timeline of resistance in the modern world.

#GeorgiaProtests

Meanwhile, on X

Catfish nuggets are great in a saute pan simmer sauce, I like doing it with garam masala and tomato puree, fresh cilantro on top

Ed's been like that for a long, long time

I saw some slapfight start yesterday over “Deneen is a groyper” and I’m pretty jaded but some of the shit people just post on main these days is damn, they do mean it