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Undergraduate students who wish to leave Emerson and have no intention of returning to complete their studies at a later date must withdraw from the College.
To withdraw, undergraduate students must report to the Dean of Students' Office (150 Boylston Street, 2nd Floor) to fill out the appropriate paperwork. Resident students who withdraw are required to vacate student housing immediately.
Graduate students who wish to terminate their degree programs must report to the Office of Graduate Studies (180 Tremont Street, 12th Floor) to fill out the appropriate paperwork. The withdrawal form must be signed by all designated parties.

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Close to Salamanca district, one of Madrid's chicest residential areas, boasting magnificent views of El Paseo de la Castellana, Occidental Miguel Angel hotel offers all of the necessary amenities to satisfy even the most demanding guests, whether travelling on vacation or business. Guests will enjoy personalized service, a superb location near the city's main tourism attractions including the historic downtown, the emblematic Real Madrid soccer stadium, and the IFEMA Convention Center.
- 267 rooms, most with views of the Paseo de la Castellana
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The city of Madrid is one of the world's cultural capitals. Visitors to this city will find some of the country's most emblematic monuments such as the Puerta de Alcalá (city arches), Plaza Mayor (Main Square), magnificent museums like El Prado and the Reina Sofía, nature in the nearby mountains, and history in the city of Alcalá de Henares, the birthplace of Miguel de Cervantes. Madrid's nightlife is unique, as you will find its streets, restaurants, clubs and cafes hopping until the wee hours - all year round.
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Since tomorrow was declared a special non working holiday, it is expected that the volume of people will surpass the number of Ninoy's funeral. Although its sort of different now, our love for Tita Cory brings us together to bring her to her final resting place beside her beloved husband, our hero Ninoy.
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For people who are used to ripping digital music files from a CD in a few seconds, it will probably feel incredibly unwieldy and tedious to copy files in the analog domain. Since this process happens in real time, the only way to "rip" an entire album to your hard drive using the Debut III USB is to play it at actual speed all the way through. And even then, your work isn't done. When you rip a CD to your computer, an online database like Gracenote can recognize your digital files and tag them with song title, artist, and other information commonly known as metadata. But a vinyl LP doesn't allow for automatic metadata tagging. To make the digital copies useful, you'll need to go through and split the file at the song breaks, manually type in the songs' information, and insert cover art that you locate somewhere online. Of course, if your plan is to simply burn a CD, you can probably get away with just inserting the song breaks. Still, between the transfer, editing, and manual tagging, you should probably allow for about 1 to 1 1⁄2 hours per record.
Other features of Audacity include an adjustable click remover, which seems to work pretty well (although there's always a danger of overdoing it with this type of tool). More interesting is the equalizer, which has several presets, as well as manually adjustable EQ settings for different types of 78-rpm discs. A standard Debut III USB can't play 78s, but a pulley adapter and an electronic speed-adjustment box are available as options. And the good news here is that a 2.5mm-wide-groove plug-in stylus is also available for the Ortofon OM 5 E cartridge.
The sound quality of my digital transfers depended primarily on the condition of the source records. The CDs I made sounded excellent played over my car stereo or through computer speakers, although when compared directly to the LPs over my reference system, they lost a little of their immediacy and dimensionality. Still, in many ways the copies carried a good measure of the analog magic that audiophiles crave. Files transferred to my iPod as high-bit-rate MP3s also sounded very good, although the CAT-scan-like clarity of my Ultimate Ears Custom UE 10 Pro in-ear monitors revealed far more surface noise than the other playback methods.
Bridging the gap between the old analog world and today's digital one, where files can be moved around and transferred with ease, has never been simple. While the prospect of squeezing a large collection of vinyl LPs onto an iPod might sound appealing, the time-consuming work involved means that it's best left for transferring a few precious, irreplaceable records that you can't get in digital form. For that purpose, the Pro-Ject Debut III USB gets much better results than any other similar product I'm aware of. And remember, with its analog output, this turntable can also provide excellent sound when simply playing one of your precious records on your regular stereo system.
As an avid stereophile since the early 60's, I've messed with it all (except 8-tracks). I have in the past set up my turntable to record to my PC using a phono pre-amp, with quite good results. Over the years, I've moved on, I guess, but after reading about this unit, I have an urge to "go back" and give it a try. I still have an extensive vinyl collection. There really is something about analog that just won't be denied; hard to put into words, but there, none-the-less. Transcription is definitely more "hands-on", which can be quite satisfying. It can be time consuming, or time well spent, depending on your viewpoint I suppose. The "fine tuning" can be quite extensive, given the many tools available. I have used Audacity, which is an excellent tool; if you take the time to learn it, you will find it will do just about anything you desire. Thanks for the review of this unit; folks who can relate to fine audio and analog and the hands on approach will appreciate it!
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It's time to support a candidate who says that she won't cut Social Security and Medicare. And it's time to fight against one who promises that he will.
Let's start with Republican House candidate Mark Sanford. Go to the eponymous website marksanford.com. You'll find a slew of "talking points" that right-wingers use to rationalize cruel cuts against seniors. Mark Sanford wants to rob Social Security for the same reason that Willie Sutton robbed banks: because that's where the money is. "Mark believes that entitlement reform is key simply because that is where the bulk of all federal spending takes place." (Isn't it funny how the phrase "entitlement reform" always means cuts? What was Hurricane Katrina -- "urban renewal"?)
Here's more: Sanford "believes that programs like Social Security and Medicare represent a promise to our citizens that must be kept for existing beneficiaries, but that we have to modernize these programs for future retirees...." So if you're under 65 -- and you've been working hard and paying into the program for your whole adult life -- Mark Sanford is ready, willing and able to break that promise to you. As far as Mark Sanford is concerned, if you're under 65, then you can jump in the lake, tell it to the Marines, kick the bucket, shut your face, pound salt, pound sand, suck eggs, buzz off, get lost, clear out, stick it, stuff it, and pack it in. All of the above, and all at once.
Help stop Mark Sanford from cutting Social Security and Medicare.
Now here is what Sanford's opponent, Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch, has to say. "I believe that our seniors earned their Social Security by putting money away [in] every single paycheck for a lifetime -- knowing that they could count on Social Security when they retired..... Simply put, Social Security doesn't contribute to the deficit, and politicians should keep their hands off the trust fund."
And here's the clincher. Colbert Busch says that she "respectfully disagrees" with the President's budget -- not an easy position to take, when you might need his support in your campaign -- because "it would cut benefits for our seniors, which is wrong."
You go, girl.
So we have one candidate, Mark Sanford, who would cut Social Security, and we have one candidate, Elizabeth Colbert Busch, who would not. Whose side are you on? And what are you willing to do about it? To help Elizabeth Colbert Busch beat Mark Sanford, click here.
Rep. Alan Grayson
I'm trying my best. But there is a limit to what I can accomplish when there are 232 Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives (a/k/a "the Comatose Caucus") and only 201 Democrats.
If we're going to win more votes, and pass more good bills, then we need more Democrats. Democracy is like that.
Tomorrow, there is a special election in South Carolina to replace Tim Scott, who was the last remaining African-American Republican in the House. (There are 42 African-American Democrats in the House.) The Republican nominee is former Governor Sanford. The Democratic nominee is Elizabeth Colbert Busch. Despite the fact that President Obama lost this district last year by 18 points, in the latest poll, the two candidates are only one point apart.
I'm not going to make fun of Governor Sanford. That's just too easy.
Nor am I going to ask you to support Colbert Busch because her brother is Stephen Colbert of the Comedy Central Channel. By the same token, I will not ask you to support Warren Beatty for Congress just because his sister is Shirley MacLaine. Same thing with Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez. Also Peter Graves and James Arness. And Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine.
I could ask you to support Colbert Busch because, according to one report, she is pro-choice, she backs marriage equality, and she supports immigration reform. So I could ask you to support her without feeling my gorge rise. But I won't do it for that reason alone.
No, I'm going to ask you to support her campaign because the last thing that we need in the U.S. House of Representatives right now is another Republican. And the thing that we do need is more Democrats. Seventeen more Democrats, to be exact.
We've established a contribution page to help her campaign. Click here, etc., etc. Let's take back the House.
Rep. Alan Grayson
P.S. Please help elect another Democrat by sharing this with your friends on Facebook and Twitter.
Our subject today is Congressman Grayson's recent bold statement that Medicare should cover glasses, hearing aids and dental work, because, as he put it, "most seniors have eyes, ears and teeth." But before we get to that, we just want to remind you that today is the last day to qualify for a chance to join Alan at Disney World next month by contributing $25 or more to his re-election campaign. We now return to our regularly scheduled commercial programming.
A couple of weeks ago, key progressive officials joined a conference call with grassroots leaders about how to protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid from Republican benefit cuts like the so-called "chained CPI." Earlier this week, we shared Congressman Grayson's statement on that call with you. Now, here is some of the Q&A:
Adam [PCCC]: We have a question from William Packson's e-mail [address], in Congressman Grayson's home state. He says:
"I am receiving $11,208 per year [in Social Security], out of which I must pay medical bills, rent, food, utilities, transportation, and prescriptions. As it is, there is not enough to pay for all necessities. What is Congress planning on doing to the cost of living adjustments?"
Congressman, would you like to take that first?
Alan: Well, sure. Unfortunately, there are Members of Congress, who are called Republicans, who are planning cuts to cost of living adjustments. The "chained CPI" is fakery that will recalculate the cost of living adjustments – basically with the idea that if the cost of gasoline doubles, that [somehow] doesn't represent a doubling in the cost of living, because some people will have to walk to work, not being able to afford gasoline. So they put more shoe leather into the calculation, and less gas. It's just cheating. I laid this out in an email I sent around, in a blog post a few weeks ago. [As I said,] they are just trying to baffle us with "you-know-what." It's not fair. It doesn't fully reflect the increase of the cost of living. And it's a shame, because as the caller points out, right now the money you get from Social Security isn't even enough to raise you above the poverty level. We are not giving our seniors enough to live above the poverty level. Imagine what it would be like if they got less. (And I'm saying "less" in some real sense.) So I think it's unconscionable.
I don't know exactly why Republicans feel the same way about cutting Social Security and Medicare like the way a moth feels about a flame. I don't understand that, but we have to deal with it.
The Sequester is in danger of becoming the latest excuse for giving rein to this desire to hurt old people, hurt poor people, hurt sick people -- and we just can't allow it. We've got a system that accurately assesses cost of living increases, and we have to protect it from attacks by the other side. . . .
Peter King [CBS News]: Okay. Thank you very much. I'm actually based out of Orlando, which is Congressman Grayson's home state. And you know this is obviously a very partisan position, and the message here is very much Democrats versus Republicans. . . . [I]s there anything here that you would be willing to compromise [on] at all? I mean Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid are all really broad programs. And there is arguably a lot of waste in some of these programs. Just wondering to see if there is anything you could move an inch or a foot on here, to get rolling? . . .
Alan: Well first, it used to be that there was consensus on this. It used to be that Democrats and Republicans agreed that there should not be cuts to benefits for Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare – and that's changed. People used to regard Social Security as the "third rail" in American politics. You've probably heard that phrase before. [The "third rail" is the subway rail that carries electricity, and can electrocute you.] But now, Republicans are not only touching the third rail, they are dancing on it. And that's unfortunate. You know, Reagan used to say 'I didn't leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left me.' I think there are probably a lot of Republicans in the country, particularly seniors, who are scratching their heads and saying, 'I didn't leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left me.' By this unquenchable thirst right now to hurt the needy. To hurt seniors, poor people, people who need medical care and just want to see a doctor when they are sick. It's not consistent with the original conception of Republicanism, of conservatism. We are trying to conserve these programs -- you'd think that "conservatives" would be with us.
But to get to your question, I will tell you this: I think you can eliminate fraud [without breaking the "No Cuts" pledge]. You can eliminate waste, you can eliminate abuse – and in no sense would you break this promise. This is a promise that is very clear. It's that we are going to "vote against any and every cut against Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits." Benefits – that's what the recipients actually see. If they're in Medicare and they go to a doctor that means there are major procedures that are covered, and those are not going to change.
If we can eliminate or reduce waste, fraud and abuse of these programs, that doesn't change their benefits. If we can run the program more efficiently, that doesn't change their benefits. If we change the [taxation] payment plan, the Social Security tax, the Medicare tax, that doesn't change the benefits. If we change what doctors get paid for procedures, that [change] doesn't change the benefits, either. It's what the recipients see [that matters].
You know, we can't ask people to pay into these programs year after year, decade after decade, and then when it's their turn, we say to them, "Well, you know, the law was that you had to be sixty-five [to qualify], but now you have to seventy-two." That's not fair. It wouldn't be fair if the private entity did it. It wouldn't be fair if the government did it, either.
So the answer to your question is 'yes.' Of course you can make changes [that are not benefit cuts] to the program, and then make the program better. I'd like to see Medicare cover eyewear. I'd like to see it cover hearing aids. I'd like to see it cover dental work. As far as I know, most seniors have eyes, ears and teeth. [Laughs.] I think these things should be covered. I'd like to move in that direction. That would improve these programs. But in terms of cutting benefits, no – that's not fair.
Isn't it about time that someone said that we should be perfecting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, not cutting them? Well, someone just did.
If you would like a chance to join that special someone in Orlando, then please click here. Last chance, last dance, last romance.
Like 434 other Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, if I want to keep the job, I have to run for re-election next year. Unlike 434 other Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, I can't count on lobbyists and special interests to pay for my campaign with their $10,000 checks. Because I won't offer them anything in return.
So it has been our practice to turn to The People, and appeal for support. But to be honest, it has always irked me that when the lobbyists put out, they get their tax breaks and their no-bid contracts and their bailouts and their deregulation in return. Quid pro quo. An eye for their eye, and a tooth for their tooth. A tit for their tat. You know, a personalized gift. And what do you get for your contribution? What quid do you get for your quo? Nothing but fearless leadership and good government. Nice, but not personal.
I would like to call every single person who has ever contributed to our campaign, say "thanks," and just have a nice, long chat. But I can't do that, because there are 100,000 people who have contributed to our campaign. There just isn't enough time.
So I have wrestled with this question of how I can do something personal for the people who make all of this possible. And I have concluded that I can't do something personal for all of you. But I can do something personal for two of you. I can invite you to Orlando, where I live, I can pay for you to get here, and I can spend some time with you at Disney World. Payback doesn't have to be a mofo.
Now, again, I wish that I could do the same for everyone who supports our campaign. You certainly deserve it. I would enjoy it. But we can't. So instead, we will choose from among the people who contribute $25 or more to the campaign this week, and two people will become the designated hitters for all the rest. Designated hitters for all of the equally deserving remainder. Not democracy, but randomocracy.
So I respectfully request that you fork over your $25 or more today. Or do it again, since each time you do it this week counts as a separate entry. To help our campaign, but also to set up two people for a very nice time with me, knowing that you might be one of them. If it's you, great. If it's someone else, then you are giving me a chance to thank them personally, on your behalf. On behalf of all of you.
Doesn't that seem fair?
Rep. Alan Grayson
P.S. It's the end of our FEC reporting period today, and blah-blah-blah.
P.P.S. At some point this week, we realized that this offer, as announced, would end on the Sunday of a holiday weekend. Which is ridiculous, because a lot of people don't read their e-mails on the weekend. So we actually are going to keep this going until tomorrow at midnight, just to give everyone a fair chance. But don't keep us waiting; we hate that.
President Obama is in the midst of a slow-motion Cabinet shuffle, so many Cabinet positions have been up for grabs. Comedian Julianna Forlano of AbsurdityToday.com has given this a lot of thought. She has offered this excellent advice to President Obama:
Environmentalist Robert Kennedy, Jr. for head of the EPA.
Nobel Prize-winning Economist Paul Krugman for Treasury Secretary.
Former NY Governor Eliot Spitzer for head of the SEC.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren for head of a Department of Consumer Affairs.
Mayor Cory Booker for head of the Department of Homeland Security (because Booker saved a dog, so he's good at it).
Former Rep. Dennis Kucinich for Secretary of Defense (Amen to that!)
Paul Ryan for Secretary of Agriculture ("given his demonstrated ability to constantly spread manure").
Forlano says that there is one public figure who is qualified to do all of these jobs – Congressman Alan Grayson. But she has something special in mind for him. Forlano wants Grayson to serve as White House Press Secretary, on the strength of this Grayson audition on Jennifer Granholm's TV show "The War Room":
Gov. Granholm: "Do you think that the Republicans are blowing their majority by appearing too extreme on this [comprehensive gun control]?"
Rep. Grayson: "No, they're blowing their majority by being callous, bigoted tools."
(You can see more from Julianna Forlano on her YouTube channel "Ironic News Report".)
We here on the Grayson Campaign appreciate Julianna Forlano's suggestion, but we would like to see Alan Grayson remain in Congress. Because if not, then we all lose our jobs.
Speaking of which, you can help to pay our salaries by contributing to the Grayson for Congress campaign. You wouldn't want to see us go hungry, would you? And if you contribute at least $25 today or tomorrow, then you will have a chance to join Congressman Grayson at Disney World, expenses paid.
Please? Pretty please? Pretty please with sugar on top?
Candidate for Congress (D-FL)
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The Gallatin Street Bridge regularly takes a beating by trucks that either ram it or get stuck under it.
"It happens every week. We just got one out last week on the other side," said tow truck driver David Odom.
It happens so often, some residents are nervous about the toll the trucks take on the bridge.
"It's a wonder that they haven't torn the bridge down, with the trucks coming with that full force," said resident Diane Thomas.
"There's no doubt in my mind that the bridge is damaged," said resident Billy Wash. "I know it's damaged but I don't know how much."
The bridge sits at the edge of downtown Jackson, just past East Porter Street. The clearance is just over 10 feet.
While 16 WAPT's Tammy Estwick and photojournalist Mike McCarty were shooting video of the bridge last week, a box truck slammed into the bridge.
"It happens all the time," said Warren Devaul, who works near the bridge. "Why can't they read the sign there?"
Estwick took a close look at the bridge after the latest crash and reported seeing crumbling concrete columns, mangled metal pieces and, on the underside of the bridge, what looks like a fair amount of damage. Estwick showed pictures of the bridge to Jackson Mayor Harvey Johnson.
"What type of accountability does the city have for this bridge? What if someone gets hurt?" Estwick asked the mayor.


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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
lamps from thermo flasks? no kidding,
he writes, "i wanted to have a kitchen light which transports something of the context. it works also on the table in your office or in your living room. all you need is a lampshade, lamp holder, a cable, a cable-switch and a bulb. to remove the glass-volume from the flask, you just have to unscrew the bottom of the body in left direction, then you can pull the glass-volume out. that's it."
unfortunately, ikea doesn't sell this flask anymore.
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- MackieMarch 25, 2008 1:36 PM
:-D this is fun! and there are other flasks like this one around, so there is still a chance to do it ...
ReplyDelete - AnonymousMarch 27, 2008 12:46 AM
There is a Mexican restaurant in West Portal in San Francisco that has lamps like this... they use Ikea watering cans, colanders, and other random objects. They look pretty neat.
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Trial to begin for couple accused of murdering elderly Royal Oak woman
A trial that will see one accused murderer take the stand against another will begin Monday in Oakland County Circuit Court.
Alan Craig Wood, 49, will stand trial in the 2011 death of an elderly Royal Oak woman, and his former co-defendant, Tonia Michelle Watson, 41, will testify against him after reaching a plea deal.
Wood faces a first-degree murder charge, punishable by a mandatory sentence of life in prison, as well as illegal use of a financial transaction device. Watson had faced the same charges, but pleaded to a lesser charge of second-degree murder — which offers a chance at a release from prison — along with illegal use of a financial transaction device, according to court records.
Jury selection will begin at 8:30 a.m. Monday in front of Oakland County Circuit Judge Colleen O'Brien. Once the jury is seated, opening statements will take place.
Wood and Watson — described as transients with lengthy criminal histories who drifted from motel to motel — are accused of killing Nancy Dailey, 80, inside her Trafford Avenue home in Royal Oak.
Dailey's body was found on Nov. 20, 2011. She had been tied to a chair, beaten and stabbed, and her throat had been slashed, authorities said.
Dailey had paid Wood and Watson $40 to do yard work for her in the days before her death. A week later, they needed money for drugs, and they targeted Dailey, according to Royal Oak Detective Perry Edgell, who testified at a preliminary hearing.
According to testimony, Dailey yelled: "I tried to help you, you dirty birds," just before Wood slashed her throat and stuck a knife in her neck.
The case prompted Dailey's niece, who represents Dailey's estate, to file lawsuits in state and federal court against the Michigan Department of Corrections.
According to the lawsuits, filed by the Rasor Law Firm, Wood and Watson "had been on a local crime spree in Southeastern Oakland County" in the weeks leading up to Dailey's death. Continued...
Both Wood and Watson met with parole officers in the midst of the alleged crime spree, but both were released back into the community, according to the lawsuits.
DNA evidence found on Dailey's scarf and fingernail clippings showed that Wood could not be excluded as a major donor of Y-STR DNA, which tests along paternal lines. Defense attorneys attempted to have that evidence barred from trial, but O'Brien ruled that it was admissible.
The homicide has also resulted in changes within the Royal Oak Police Department. Officers now perform regular checks of the city's motels, seeking those who may have active arrest warrants or are violating parole.
The city has also enacted a do-not knock ordinance, allowing homeowners to sign up to prevent commercial solicitors from knocking on their doors.
Daily Tribune staff writers Michael McConnell and Catherine Kavanaugh contributed to this report. Contact staff writer Dave Phillips at 248-745-4631 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @dave_phillips1.
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�Five years ago it used to be that 85% of clients came from existing client referrals and centers of influence referrals,� Francais said, �and a small percentage, 15% or less, came in over the transom.�
Today, that 15% has grown to 25% to 35% at Aspiriant, he said.
�People just call us up and say, �I read about you. I want to learn more about the independent space. I went through a bunch of websites and I identify with your company,� he said.
It�s not that client referrals have tapered off, according to Francais. It�s just that growing awareness is driving in a new demographic of clients.
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One person is dead and several Special Olympics athletes were taken to Royal Inland Hospital after a car drove into the path of a charter bus near Cache Creek.
The collision caused the car to explode into flames. Emergency responders closed the highway for several hours Friday night in order for police and the coroner to investigate.
"The athletes are quite distraught," RCMP Cpl. J.R. Michaud told The Daily News. "It's an emotional day for them for sure."
He said the driver of the westbound car was killed. The athletes' injuries ranged from scrapes and bruises to possible fractures.
There were 24 athletes on the A&E Charter bus out of Quesnel along with caregivers. Michaud said the athletes are from Quesnel and Prince George and were bound for Kelowna.
The location of the crash was 15 kilometres east of Cache Creek near the McAbee fossil beds area.
Medical personnel at RIH expected to be swamped with between 18 and 24 patients. No extra staff were brought in, but some stayed late. A representative for the athletes declined to comment.
RCMP and the B.C. Coroners Service must determine why the car crossed the centre line of the Trans-Canada Highway into the bus's path.
The identity of the driver of the car had not been confirmed Friday night.
Ted Giesbrecht and his wife, Anita, were driving home to 100 Mile House from Kamloops when the car passed them.
"The next thing we saw as we came around a gentle bend in the road was poof — something hit the front end of the bus, careened off to the side of the road and was on fire," said Giesbrecht.
Giesbrecht, along with a truck driver who also stopped, ran to help. The truck driver had a couple of fire extinguishers and the men tried to put out the burning car.
"We made a dent, but not a lot. It just kept roaring," he said. "What do you do?"
Giesbrecht and other passersby helped passengers get out of the bus. He said the vehicle's front window was blown out in the collision.
"They were in a bit of shock. They were all pretty calm actually," he said.
Police, firefighters and paramedics arrived. Michaud said a second charter bus was brought in to take the athletes to Kamloops. Some travelled by ambulance.
He said 16 passengers were injured. There was only one occupant in the car.


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Cartoonapalooza in Seattle!
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2009-06-29 04:00.There's a boatload of political cartoonists coming to Seattle! Why is such a surly, unpredictable lot of ink-dribblers going to be in the same place? Why, the annual convention of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, of course.
The main event open to the public is Cartoonapalooza, this Thursday, July 2nd at 7:30 at Town Hall in downtown Seattle. The two-hour show will be full of cartoons, laughter, biting satire, thrills and chills. Tickets are $25 for adults and $15 for students. This is a must-see event with an amazing lineup of cartoonists including:
Mike Peters, a Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist and the creator of Mother Goose and Grimm. He is insane in person and will probably steal the show, he's also an all-around great guy. (Oh, and he has that cartoonist trait of looking about 25 years younger than he actually is.)
David Horsey, the Seattle hometown favorite who is renowned for drawing the most anatomically-correct females in the political cartooning world. Great guy, a cowboy of sorts and also won some silly prize called the Pulitzer. Twice, damn him.
Jack Ohman, famed Portland Oregonian political cartoonist who does outstanding work. If you attend the show and sit close enough, you will witness the amazing fact that he looks suprisingly like a Kennedy. (JFK or RFK, you decide.) Appropriately enough, he won the RFK Journalism Award this year for his beautiful work.
Matt Bors is one of the funniest cartoonists I know. He draws the cartoon "Idiot Box," has a great blog and also does that Twitter thing really well. His work is outstanding and he keeps all the other cartoonists honest. (Oh, and he has that other cartoonist trait where he actually is 25 years younger.)
Ted Rall is one of the best bastards in cartooning. (That is one of the highest compliments a fellow cartoonist can give.) His work is wonderfully hard-hitting and will never leave you guessing what he is trying to say. And don't worry, he's a much nicer guy in person than he is in his cartoons.
Signe Wilkinson is one of the world's best political cartoonists, period. Her style and take on events is refreshingly different and will leave you in awe and in fear for her safety. (She has a particular fondness for going after old, angry, male religious extremists, it seems.) Signe has also won a Pulitzer, but don't hold that against her.
Oh, and me, Mark Fiore. I do animated stuff that looks like this. Hope to see you there!
There will also be many other political cartoonists in attendance, with a sale of original work and other goodies. (Sales will benefit the educational and professional activities of the AAEC.)


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The Lakewood Ranch Post Office and others throughout Manatee County collected more than 16 tons of food for the Food Bank of Manatee during the 17th Annual Letter Carriers' Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive May 9.
The drive is a nationwide effort to collect non-perishable goods from resident mail boxes for local food banks and pantries. This annual drive is a major source of food for The Food Bank of Manatee, which is experiencing an unprecedented demand for aid from 110 local area agencies that help needy families in Manatee County.
"This one day event took a lot of effort and coordination between the post offices and ourselves to make it such a success," said Joe Mercado, director of The Food Bank. "Without our marvelous volunteers and the help of the postal carriers, I don't know if we would have enough supplies to make it through the summer months when donations are slow. Our local children will soon be on summer vacation and it is satisfying to know that even without a school lunch, we can provide those in need with food, thanks to the generosity of our community."
Volunteers helpedthe mail carriers unload food donations and place them in the Food Bank trucks to be taken to the Food Bank Rescue Center where more volunteers unloaded, sorted and re-packed the goods to be given to the agencies requesting food for residents in need.
More help is still needed to sort food, and all businesses, schools, or civic groups are welcome. For more information on how you can help, call 941-747-FOOD. Additional information is available at www.foodbankofmanatee.org.
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Lawrence Summers
Lawrence Summers | |
8th Director of the National Economic Council | |
In office January 20, 2009 – December 31, 2010 |
Deputy | Diana Farrell Jason Furman |
Preceded by | Keith Hennessey |
Succeeded by | Gene Sperling |
27th President of Harvard University | |
In office July 1, 2001 – June 20, 2006 |
Preceded by | Neil Rudenstine |
Succeeded by | Derek Bok (Acting); Drew Gilpin Faust |
71st Secretary of the Treasury of the United States | |
In office July 2, 1999 – January 20, 2001 |
President | Bill Clinton |
Preceded by | Robert Rubin |
Succeeded by | Paul O'Neill |
United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury | |
In office 1995–1999 |
President | Bill Clinton |
Preceded by | Frank N. Newman |
Succeeded by | Stuart E. Eizenstat |
Chief Economist of the World Bank | |
In office 1991–1993 |
Preceded by | Stanley Fischer |
Succeeded by | Michael Bruno |
Personal details | |
Born | Lawrence Henry Summers November 30, 1954 New Haven, Connecticut |
Political party | Democratic Party |
Spouse(s) | Victoria Joanne (Perry) Summers (1984[1]-?; divorced; 3 children) Elisa New (m. 2005) |
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard University |
Profession | Academic Economist |
Religion | Judaism |
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"There is no financial institution that exists today that is not the direct or indirect beneficiary of trillions of dollars of taxpayer support for the financial system" — Larry Summers, Oct. 16, 2009[2] |
Lawrence Henry "Larry" Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist. He served as the 71st United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. He was Director of the White House United States National Economic Council for President Barack Obama until November 2010.[3] Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He is the 1993 recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal for his work in several fields of economics.
Summers also served as the 27th President of Harvard University from 2001 to 2006. Summers resigned as Harvard's president in the wake of a no-confidence vote by Harvard faculty that resulted in large part from Summers's conflict with Cornel West, financial conflict of interest questions regarding his relationship with Andrei Shleifer, and a 2005 speech in which he suggested that the under-representation of women in science and engineering could be due to a "different availability of aptitude at the high end," and less to patterns of discrimination and socialization.
Summers has also been criticized for the economic policies he advocated as Treasury Secretary and in later writings.[4] In 2009, he was tapped by President Obama to be the director of the White House National Economic Council.[3][5]
Family and education [edit]
Summers was born in New Haven, Connecticut, on November 30, 1954, into a Jewish family, the son of two economists, Robert Summers (who changed the family surname from Samuelson) and Anita Summers of (Romanian-Jewish ancestry), who are both professors at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the nephew of two Nobel laureates in economics: Paul Samuelson (brother of Robert Summers) and Kenneth Arrow (brother of Anita Summers). He spent most of his childhood in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, where he attended Harriton High School.
At age 16,[6] he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he originally intended to study physics but soon switched to economics (S.B., 1975). He was also an active member of the MIT debating team and qualified for participation in the annual National Debate Tournament three times. He attended Harvard University as a graduate student (Ph.D., 1982). In 1983, at age 28, Summers became one of the youngest tenured professors in Harvard's history. It was also during this time that Summers was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. He underwent treatment and has since remained cancer free. He was a visiting academic at the London School of Economics[7] in 1987. Summers has three children (older twin daughters Ruth and Pamela and son Harry) with his first wife, Victoria Joanne (Perry).[8] In December 2005, Summers married English professor Elisa New, who has three daughters (Yael, Orli and Maya) from a previous marriage. He currently owns two houses, one in Washington, D.C. and one in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Career [edit]
Academic economist [edit]
As a researcher, Summers has made important contributions in many areas of economics, primarily public finance, labor economics, financial economics, and macroeconomics. Some of Summers's early papers concluded that corporate and capital gains taxes are an inefficient form of taxation.[citation needed] Cutting the capital gains tax rate, Summers found, could help the economy grow.[citation needed] Later, while working in the Reagan and Clinton White Houses, Summers was able to lobby successfully for cuts in both corporate and capital gains taxes.[citation needed] One of Summers's prominent assertions in labor economics is that unemployment insurance and welfare payments are a major contributor to unemployment, and therefore should be scaled back.[9]
Summers has also worked in international economics, economic demography, economic history and development economics. His work generally emphasizes the analysis of empirical economic data in order to answer well-defined questions (for example: Does saving respond to after-tax interest rates? Are the returns from stocks and stock portfolios predictable? Are most of those who receive unemployment benefits only transitorily unemployed? etc.) For his work he received the John Bates Clark Medal in 1993 from the American Economic Association. In 1987 he was the first social scientist to win the Alan T. Waterman Award from the National Science Foundation. Summers is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Public official [edit]
Summers was on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Reagan in 1982–1983. He also served as an economic adviser to the Dukakis Presidential campaign in 1988.
Chief Economist at the World Bank [edit]
Summers left Harvard in 1991 and served as Chief Economist for the World Bank until 1993.
As Chief Economist, Summers stated in a 1991 interview: "There are no... limits to the carrying capacity of the earth that are likely to bind any time in the foreseeable future. There isn't a risk of an apocalypse due to global warming or anything else. The idea that we should put limits on growth because of some natural limit, is a profound error and one that, were it ever to prove influential, would have staggering social costs." This statement is regarded as highly controversial by ecologists and other sustainability scientists.[10]
"Dirty Industries" controversy [edit]
In December 1991, while at the World Bank, Summers signed a memo that was leaked to the press. Lant Pritchett has claimed authorship of the private memo, which both he and Summers say was intended as sarcasm. The memo stated that "the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that.... I've always thought that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted."[11] According to Pritchett, the memo as leaked was doctored to remove context and intended irony, and was "a deliberate fraud and forgery to discredit Larry and the World Bank." [12]
Service in the Clinton Administration [edit]
In 1993 Summers was appointed Undersecretary for International Affairs and later in the United States Department of the Treasury under the Clinton Administration. In 1995, he was promoted to Deputy Secretary of the Treasury under his long-time political mentor Robert Rubin. In 1999, he succeeded Rubin as Secretary of the Treasury.
Much of Summers's tenure at the Treasury Department was focused on international economic issues. He was deeply involved in the Clinton administration's effort to bail out Mexico and Russia when those nations had currency crises.[13] Summers set up a project through which the Harvard Institute for International Development provided advice to the Russian government between 1992 and 1997. Later there was a scandal when it emerged that some of the Harvard project members had invested in Russia, and were therefore not impartial advisors.[14] Summers encouraged then-Russian leader Boris Yeltsin to use the same "three-'ations'" of policy he advocated in the Clinton Administration-- "privatization, stabilization, and liberalization."[15]
Summers pressured the Korean government to raise its interest rates and balance its budget in the midst of a recession, policies criticized by Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz.[16] According to the book The Chastening, by Paul Blustein, during this crisis, Summers, along with Paul Wolfowitz, pushed for regime change in Indonesia.[17]
Summers was a leading voice within the Clinton Administration arguing against American leadership in greenhouse gas reductions and against US participation in the Kyoto Protocol, according to internal documents made public in 2009.[18]
As Treasury Secretary, Summers led the Clinton Administration's opposition to tax cuts proposed by the Republican Congress in 1999.[19] Also during his stint in the Clinton Administration, Summers was successful in pushing for capital gains tax cuts.[citation needed] During the California energy crisis of 2000, then-Treasury Secretary Summers teamed with Alan Greenspan and Enron executive Kenneth Lay to lecture California Governor Gray Davis on the causes of the crisis, explaining that the problem was excessive government regulation.[20] Under the advice of Kenneth Lay, Summers urged Davis to relax California's environmental standards in order to reassure the markets.[21]
Summers hailed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act in 1999, which lifted more than six decades of restrictions against banks offering commercial banking, insurance, and investment services (by repealing key provisions in the 1933 Glass–Steagall Act): "Today Congress voted to update the rules that have governed financial services since the Great Depression and replace them with a system for the 21st century," Summers said.[22] "This historic legislation will better enable American companies to compete in the new economy."[22] Many critics, including President Barack Obama, have suggested the 2007 subprime mortgage financial crisis was caused by the partial repeal of the 1933 Glass–Steagall Act.[23] Indeed, as a member of President Clinton's Working Group on Financial Markets, Summers, along with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Arthur Levitt, Fed Chairman Greenspan, and Secretary Rubin, torpedoed an effort to regulate the derivatives that many blame for bringing the financial market down in Fall 2008.[24]
Summers's role in the deregulation of derivatives contracts [edit]
On May 7, 1998, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a Concept Release soliciting input from regulators, academics, and practitioners to determine "how best to maintain adequate regulatory safeguards without impairing the ability of the OTC (Over-the-counter) derivatives market to grow and the ability of U.S. entities to remain competitive in the global financial marketplace." [25] On July 30, 1998, then-Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Summers testified before the U.S. Congress that "the parties to these kinds of contract are largely sophisticated financial institutions that would appear to be eminently capable of protecting themselves from fraud and counterparty insolvencies." Summers, like Greenspan and Rubin who also opposed the concept release, offered no proof that the contracts would not be misused by financial institutions. Instead, Summers stated that "to date there has been no clear evidence of a need for additional regulation of the institutional OTC derivatives market, and we would submit that proponents of such regulation must bear the burden of demonstrating that need." [26] In 1999 Summers endorsed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act which removed the separation between investment and commercial banks, saying "With this bill, the American financial system takes a major step forward towards the 21st Century."[27]
The first response to the CFTC Concept Release was issued as a joint statement from Rubin, Alan Greenspan, and Arthur Levitt who stated that they "have grave concerns about this action and its possible consequences." [28] Levitt and Greenspan have admitted that their views on this issue were mistaken. Levitt told WGBH in Boston that "I could have done much better. I could have made a difference." Greenspan told a congressional hearing that "I found a flaw ... in the model that I perceived is the critical functioning structure that defines how the world works." [29] [30] When George Stephanopoulos asked Summers about the financial crisis in an ABC interview on March 15, 2009, Summers replied that "there are a lot of terrible things that have happened in the last eighteen months, but what's happened at A.I.G. ... the way it was not regulated, the way no one was watching ... is outrageous."
At the 2005 Federal Reserve conference in Jackson Hole, Raghuram Rajan presented a paper called "Has Financial Development Made the World Riskier?" Rajan pointed to a number of potential problems with the financial developments of the past thirty years.[31] The problems that Rajan considers include skewed incentives of managers, herding behavior among traders, investment bankers, and hedge fund operators who suffer withdrawals if they under-perform the market. Rajan also discusses (on pp. 337–40) the problems associated with firms that "goose up returns" by taking risky positions that yield a "positive carry." This is how Joseph J. Cassano impressed his superiors at A.I.G. for a decade while sowing the destruction of the firm. [32] During the boom years of the housing market, the credit default swap contracts that A.I.G. Financial Products sold provided a stream of premium payments to the company with no expense stream. That's an example of what Rajan calls "goosing up returns" with latent risk. Rajan asks (on page 388) "If firms today implicitly are selling various kinds of default insurance to goose up returns, what happens if catastrophe strikes?"
The flip side of the trade is equally problematic. Gregory Zuckerman in his book The Greatest Trade Ever about John Paulson's hedge fund recounts the difficulties that Paulson and others had holding on to their bets against the housing market. Even Paulson, whose timing couldn't have been better, spent a great deal of his time persuading investors to persist with the bet against the market. But month after month, millions of dollars were paid out on the credit default swap premia. The investors saw money spent and gone that could have been used to buy assets with rising prices, or at least held safely with a positive yield. As Rajan puts it (p. 338), "it takes a very brave investment manager with infinitely patient investors to fight the trend, even if the trend is a deviation from fundamental value."
Justin Lahart, writing in the Wall Street Journal in January 2009 about the response to Rajan's paper at the conference recounts that "former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, famous among economists for his blistering attacks, told the audience he found 'the basic, slightly lead-eyed premise of [Mr. Rajan's] paper to be largely misguided.'"[33]
In a recent paper (on pages 285–87), Steven Gjerstad and Nobel laureate Vernon L. Smith describe more fully (1) the contribution of derivatives to the flow of mortgage funds that supported the housing bubble, (2) the concerns that Brooksley Born had raised about the dangers inherent in these contracts, (3) Summers's contribution to their deregulation, and (4) how these contracts precipitated the collapse of the financial system in 2007 and 2008. [34]
In February 2009, Summers quoted John Maynard Keynes, saying "When circumstances change, I change my opinion", reflecting both on the failures of Wall Street deregulation and his new leadership role in the government bailout.[35]
On April 18, 2010, in an interview on ABC's "This Week" program, Clinton said Summers was wrong in the advice he gave him not to regulate derivatives.[36]
President of Harvard [edit]
In 2001, when George W. Bush became President, Summers left the Treasury Department and returned to Harvard as its 27th President, serving from July 2001 until June 2006. He is considered Harvard's first Jewish president, though his predecessor Neil Rudenstine had Jewish ancestry, and received praise from Harvard's Jewish community for his support.[37] However, a number of Summers's decisions at Harvard attracted public controversy.
Cornel West affair [edit]
In an October 2001 meeting, Summers criticized African American Studies department head Cornel West for allegedly missing three weeks of classes to work on the Bill Bradley presidential campaign, and complained that West was contributing to grade inflation. Summers also claimed that West's "rap" album was an "embarrassment" to the university. West pushed back strongly against the accusations.[38] "The hip-hop scared him. It's a stereotypical reaction," he said later. West, who later called Summers both "uninformed" and "an unprincipled power player" in describing this encounter in his book Democracy Matters (2004), subsequently returned to Princeton University, where he had taught prior to Harvard University.
Differences between the sexes [edit]
In January 2005, at a Conference on Diversifying the Science & Engineering Workforce sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Summers sparked controversy with his discussion of why women may have been underrepresented "in tenured positions in science and engineering at top universities and research institutions".
Summers had prefaced his talk, saying he was adopting an "entirely positive, rather than normative approach" and that his remarks were intended to be an "attempt at provocation."[39]
Summers then began by identifying three hypotheses for the higher proportion of men in high-end science and engineering positions:
- The high-powered job hypothesis
- Different availability of aptitude at the high end
- Different socialization and patterns of discrimination in a search[39]
The second hypothesis, the generally greater variability among men (compared to women) in tests of cognitive abilities,[40] [41] [42] leading to proportionally more males than females at both the lower and upper tails of the test score distributions, caused the most controversy. In his discussion of this hypothesis, Summers said that "even small differences in the standard deviation [between genders] will translate into very large differences in the available pool substantially out [from the mean]".[39] Summers referenced research that implied differences between the standard deviations of males and females in the top 5% of twelfth graders under various tests. He then went on to argue that, if this research were to be accepted, then "whatever the set of attributes... that are precisely defined to correlate with being an aeronautical engineer at MIT or being a chemist at Berkeley... are probably different in their standard deviations as well".[39]
Summers then concluded his discussion of the three hypotheses by saying:
So my best guess, to provoke you, of what's behind all of this is that the largest phenomenon, by far, is the general clash between people's legitimate family desires and employers' current desire for high power and high intensity, that in the special case of science and engineering, there are issues of intrinsic aptitude, and particularly of the variability of aptitude, and that those considerations are reinforced by what are in fact lesser factors involving socialization and continuing discrimination. I would like nothing better than to be proved wrong, because I would like nothing better than for these problems to be addressable simply by everybody understanding what they are, and working very hard to address them.[39]
Summers then went on to discuss approaches to remedying the shortage of women in high-end science and engineering positions.
This lunch-time talk drew accusations of sexism and careless scholarship, and an intense negative response followed, both nationally and at Harvard.[43] Summers apologized repeatedly.[44] Nevertheless, the controversy is speculated to have contributed to his resigning his position as president of Harvard University the following year, as well as costing Summers the job of Treasury Secretary in Obama's administration.[45]
Summers's opposition and support at Harvard [edit]
On March 15, 2005, members of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which instructs graduate students in Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and undergraduates in Harvard College, passed 218–185 a motion of "lack of confidence" in the leadership of Summers, with 18 abstentions. A second motion that offered a milder censure of the president passed 253 to 137, also with 18 abstentions.
The members of the Harvard Corporation, the University's highest governing body, are in charge of the selection of the president and issued statements strongly supporting Summers.
FAS faculty were not unanimous in their comments on Summers. Influential psychologist Steven Pinker defended the legitimacy of Summers's January lecture. When asked if Summers's talk was "within the pale of legitimate academic discourse," Pinker responded "Good grief, shouldn't everything be within the pale of legitimate academic discourse, as long as it is presented with some degree of rigor? That's the difference between a university and a madrassa. There is certainly enough evidence for the hypothesis to be taken seriously."[46]
Summers had stronger support among Harvard College students than among the college faculty. One poll by the Harvard Crimson indicated that students opposed his resignation by a three-to-one margin, with 57% of responding students opposing his resignation and 19% supporting it.[47]
In July 2005, the only African-American board member of Harvard Corporation, Conrad K. Harper, resigned saying he was angered both by the university president's comments about women and by Summers being given a salary increase. The resignation letter to the president said, "I could not and cannot support a raise in your salary, ... I believe that Harvard's best interests require your resignation."[48][49]
Support of economist Andrei Shleifer [edit]
Harvard and Andrei Shleifer, a close friend and protege of Summers, controversially paid $28.5 million to settle a lawsuit by the U.S. government over the conflict of interest Shleifer had while advising Russia's privatisation program. The US government had sued Shleifer under the False Claims Act, as he bought Russian stocks while designing the country's privatisation. In 2004, a federal judge ruled that while Harvard had violated the contract, Shleifer and his associate alone were liable for treble damages.
In June 2005, Harvard and Shleifer announced that they had reached a tentative settlement with the US government. In August, Harvard, Shleifer and the Department of Justice reached an agreement under which the university paid $26.5 million to settle the five-year-old lawsuit. Shleifer was also responsible for paying $2 million dollars worth of damages.
Because Harvard paid almost all of the damages and allowed Shleifer to retain his faculty position, the settlement provoked allegations of favoritism on Summers. His continued support for Shleifer strengthened Summers's unpopularity with other professors:
"I've been a member of this Faculty for over 45 years, and I am no longer easily shocked," is how Frederick H. Abernathy, the McKay professor of mechanical engineering, began his biting comments about the Shleifer case at Tuesday's fiery Faculty meeting. But, Abernathy continued, "I was deeply shocked and disappointed by the actions of this University" in the Shleifer affair.
In an 18,000-word article in Institutional Investor (January 2006), the magazine detailed Shleifer's alleged efforts to use his inside knowledge of and sway over the Russian economy in order to make lucrative personal investments, all while leading a Harvard group, advising the Russian government, that was under contract with the U.S. The article suggests that Summers shielded his fellow economist from disciplinary action by the University.[50] Summers's friendship with Shleifer was well known by the Corporation when it selected him to succeed Rudenstine and Summers recused himself from all proceedings with Shleifer, whose case was actually handled by an independent committee led by Derek Bok.
Losses on financial derivatives [edit]
During Summers's presidency at Harvard, the University entered into a series totalling US$3.52 billion of interest rate swaps, financial derivatives that can be used for either hedging or speculation.[51] Summers approved the decision to enter into the swap contracts as president of the university and as a member of Harvard Corporation, which bears "the school's ultimate fiduciary responsibility."[52] By late 2008, those positions had lost approximately $1 billion in value, a setback which forced Harvard to borrow significant sums in distressed market conditions to meet margin calls on the swaps.[53] In the end Harvard paid $497.6 million in termination fees to investment banks and has agreed to pay another $425 million over 30–40 years.[52] The decision to enter into the swap positions has been attributed to Summers and has been termed a "massive interest-rate gamble" that ended badly.[54]
Resignation as Harvard President [edit]
On February 21, 2006, Summers announced his intention to step down at the end of the school year effective June 30, 2006. Harvard agreed to provide Summers on his resignation with a one-year paid sabbatical leave, subsidized a $1 million outstanding loan to the university for his personal residence, and provided other payments.[55] Former University President Derek Bok acted as Interim President while the University conducted a search for a replacement which ended with the naming of Drew Gilpin Faust on February 11, 2007.
Post-Harvard presidency career [edit]
After a one year sabbatical, Summers subsequently accepted Harvard University's invitation to serve as the Charles W. Eliot University Professor, one of twenty select University-wide professorships, with offices in the Kennedy School of Government and the Harvard Business School.[56]
On October 19, 2006, he also became a part-time managing director of the New York-based hedge fund D. E. Shaw & Co. for which he received $5 million in salary and other compensation over a 16-month period.[57] In 2006 he was also a member of the Panel of Eminent Persons which reviewed the work of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
National Economic Council [edit]
As director of the White House National Economic Council, he emerged as a key economic decision-maker in the Obama administration, where he attracted both praise and criticism. There had been friction between Summers and former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, as Volcker accused Summers of delaying the effort to organize a panel of outside economic advisers, and Summers had cut Volcker out of White House meetings and had not shown interest in collaborating on policy solutions to the economic crisis.[58] On the other hand, Obama himself was reportedly thrilled with the work Summers did in his first few weeks on the job. And Peter Orszag, another top economic advisor, called Summers "one of the world's most brilliant economists."[59] According to Henry Kissinger Larry Summers should "be given a White House post in which he was charged with shooting down or fixing bad ideas." [60]
In January 2009, as the Obama Administration tried to pass an economic stimulus spending bill, Representative Peter DeFazio (D-OR.) criticized Summers, saying that he thought that President Barack Obama is "ill-advised by Larry Summers. Larry Summers hates infrastructure."[61] DeFazio, along with liberal economists including Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz, had argued that more of the stimulus should be spent on infrastructure,[62] while Summers had supported tax cuts.[63] In late 2008, Summers and economic advisors for then-President-elect Obama presented a memo with options for an economic stimulus package ranging from $550 billion to $900 billion.[64] According to The New Republic, economic advisor Christina Romer initially recommended a $1.8-trillion package, which proposal Summers quickly rejected, believing any stimulus approaching $1 trillion would not pass through Congress. Romer revised her recommendation to $1.2 trillion, which Summers agreed to include in the memo, but Summers struck the figure at the last minute.[65] Summers had come under fire for accepting perks from Citigroup, including free rides on its corporate jet in 2008.[66] According to the Wall Street Journal, Summers called Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) asking him to remove caps on executive pay at firms that have received stimulus money, including Citigroup.[67]
On April 3, 2009 Summers came under renewed criticism after it was disclosed that he was paid millions of dollars the previous year by companies which he now has influence over as a public servant. He earned $5 million from the hedge fund D. E. Shaw, and collected $2.7 million in speaking fees from Wall Street companies that received government bailout money.[68]
In early April 2010, Joshua Green reported that Summers was frustrated with his position at the NEC and upset that he was not chosen to replace Ben Bernanke as head of the Federal Reserve. It was considered likely that Summers would soon leave the post.[69]
On September 21, 2010, the White House announced that Summers would step down from his position on the NEC at the end of the year, to return to Harvard University.[70] In a speech to the Economic Policy Institute upon leaving his post, Summers "warn[ed] against the creeping cost of government" and "approvingly quot[ed] Daniel Patrick Moynihan's argument that increased government involvement in the health care sector is a risky idea."[71]
Post-NEC career [edit]
In June 2011 Summer joined the board of directors of Square, a company developing an electronic payment service,[72] and became a special adviser at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.[57][73] He joined the board of person-to-person lending company Lending Club in December 2012.[74]
Summers also has been authoring a column for the Financial Times.[75] Upon the death of libertarian economist Milton Friedman, Summers wrote an Op-Ed in The New York Times entitled "The Great Liberator" arguing that "any honest Democrat will admit that we are now all Friedmanites." In it Summers wrote that even though Friedman's contributions to monetary policy had been highly lauded, his most important contribution may have been "in convincing people of the importance of allowing free markets to operate."[76]
In popular culture [edit]
The 2010 film The Social Network, which deals with the founding of the social networking site Facebook, shows Summers (played by Douglas Urbanski), in his then-capacity as President of Harvard, meeting with Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss to discuss their accusations against Mark Zuckerberg. Summers is depicted as dismissive of the twins' concerns and as unable to appreciate the potential value of Facebook. In a July 2011 interview Summers seemed to confirm the movie's accuracy in its depiction of his handling of the Winklevoss twins.[77]
Larry Summers was mentioned several times during Barack Obama's 2010 appearance on The Daily Show.[78]
In the 2010 documentary Inside Job, Summers is presented as one of the key figures behind the late-2000s financial crisis. Charles Ferguson points out the economist's role in what he characterizes as the deregulation of many domains of the financial sector.[79]
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External links [edit]
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- Faculty page at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
- Profile at the U.S. Treasury Department
- Lawrence Summers at Big Think
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- Works by or about Lawrence Summers in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Voices on Antisemitism Interview with Lawrence Summers from the US Holocaust Museum, February 15, 2007
- Robert Scheer on Resignation of Lawrence Summers – video report by Democracy Now!, September 22, 2010
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