Harveytown Rumormongering

From The Huffington Post:
Despite the controversial presidency of former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, we hear that the Harvard search team looking for his replacement still has sort of a thing for Washington. The two leading choices of those offering names via the psearch@harvard.edu tip line are, um, a little more female friendly than Summers. The two: former President Clinton, once a prof at the University of Arkansas, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former provost of Stanford, the so-called Harvard of the West...

Rice is not known to be a friend to String Theory, but Clinton did present Shing-Tung Yau with a Presidential Medal of Science.

CORRECTION!: As a (once near professional class) pianist, Rice clearly knows a thing or two about string theory. Clinton, as a pretty good saxophonist, is more of a 2-brane person. Note also that Lubos (in the comments) claims some string theory chops for Rice, a claim unsupported in the article cited, which merely talks about the string theoretic interests of her boss.

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