The captain speaks

Harvard President Lawrence Summers appears to have emerged from yesterday’s “emergency” faculty meeting without serious harm: “Harvard is split on Summers.” The Washington Post quotes government professor Susan Pharr commenting on President Summers and sounding remarkably like the Captain talking about the man named Luke in my favorite movie:

“Changing his ways will be very difficult,” she said afterward. “I think people need to step back and digest what’s been said before we know how this will all turn out.”

It also helps if you’ve seen the film.

Notice: All comments are subject to moderation. Our comments are intended to be a forum for civil discourse bearing on the subject under discussion. Commenters who stray beyond the bounds of civility or employ what we deem gratuitous vulgarity in a comment — including, but not limited to, “s***,” “f***,” “a*******,” or one of their many variants — will be banned without further notice in the sole discretion of the site moderator.

Responses