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Someone had too much at breakfast

Someone had too much at breakfast

Larry Summers, head of Obama’s National Economic Council and once-beloved Harvard president, attended yesterday’s “fiscal sustainability summit” in the White House. For the event, Obama convened over a hundred policy makers and intellectuals to discuss bipartisan approaches to deficit reduction.

If anyone was wondering why Larry was a bit quiet during the whole thing, well, the Financial Times reports that “Lawrence Summers . . . fell asleep on the podium.” Falling asleep in the audience is understandable, sure, but the podium? It’s enough to make Rick Santelli mad!

The good news for students is that apparently Harvard’s unofficial motto now extends to the White House: “The hard part is getting in.”

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fitzgeraldOn the occasion of tonight’s Oscars, here’s a December piece from Slate.com that looks at “how F. Scott Fitzgerald decided where to send his characters to college.”

The impetus for the article stems from the omission of Harvard references in the Best Picture nominated The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which is based off of Fitzgerald’s short story. In the story, Benjamin Button is a Harvard man, though in the film, he is Brad Pitt, so, like, whatever dude.

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