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Summers Faces Crisis of Confidence

Faculty lambast president for poor leadership, intimidating professors

Among the Faculty members who speculated on Summers’ future at Harvard, one professor said Summers has two options—to resign, or wait until he is pushed out after a vote of no confidence at next Tuesday’s emergency meeting.

“There is clearly an enormous amount of air to clear,” Summers said at the end of the meeting.

He could not be reached for comment last night.

At the meeting, the two main docket items—a discussion of Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby’s Annual Letter to the Faculty and a report on the progress of the Curricular Review—went unaddressed.

Kirby could not be reached for comment last night.

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—Staff writer William C. Marra can be reached at wmarra@fas.harvard.edu.

—Staff writer Sara E. Polsky can be reached at polsky@fas.harvard.edu

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