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"I'm to blame," says Harvard
President Lawrence Summers, "for plans by the Hewlett Packard board to rid
CEO Carly Fiorina of some of her responsibilities."
In the latest of his string of mea culpas, Summers says the HP board was
obviously influenced by his controversial comments concerning the innate
mental ability of women to succeed in science.
"I'm sure that board members started kicking themselves for naming a woman
to head the company that produces the world's best-selling scientific
calculator," Summers said.
Surveys showed that soon after Summers gave his highly criticized speech,
sales of the calculator dropped dramatically.
"No one wanted a calculator if it was produced by an inferior intellect,"
he said.
The Harvard president said that in his talk he was merely trying to be a
devil's advocate to get those attending to discuss touchy questions, "but
Hewlett Packard directors, realizing that the Harvard motto 'Veritas'
stands for truth, immediately accepted the argument that women were born
to be scientific failures."
As penance, Summers promised to place HP calculators and computers in
every classroom if the board will agree not to demote Ms. Fiorina.
"Did I say I was sorry if I offended anyone?" Summers asked.
Elsewhere, the report that CBS is thinking of adding fake newscaster Jon
Stewart to its Nightly News seems logical to most observers, who note that
CBS wants to expand its franchise for fake news after Dan Rather is no
longer around to deliver it.
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