Summers' foot-in-mouth leads to change?

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<p>My apologies if this has already been posted. From an article in yesterday’s NYT:</p>

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Lawrence H. Summers, the embattled president of Harvard University, announced yesterday that the university would spend at least $50 million over the next decade to recruit, support and promote women and members of underrepresented minority groups on its faculty.</p>

<p>Dr. Summers said the money would be spent on a range of initiatives, including the creation of a new senior vice provost post to focus on diversity issues, improved recruitment, subsidies for salaries, mentoring of junior faculty members and extending the clock on tenure for professors who go on maternity or parental leave.

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<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/17/education/17harvard.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/17/education/17harvard.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;