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Former Obama administration economic advisor and Harvard University President Larry Summers said the federal government successfully intervened in the recession. He's optimistic about the American economic as a result. Comcast now offers its Xfinity service in Spanish. Xfinity allows TV shows to be watched on the Internet. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook. more ›

• An old man drove his car into a Wal-Mart. There'd be a punchline here, but people were hurt. [WBZ]
• Paul McCartney might come to Fenway. [Herald]
• Even if he doesn't, you can still play Beatles Rock Band. [Globe]

Harvard President Drew Faust has quickly distinguished herself from other Harvard presidents with some recent bold moves. First, she announced that Harvard would improve its financial aid offers, and now she is announcing that she will review the university's expansion to Allston, which had been perceived as a done deal during the reign of past president Larry Summers. From the Globe: "A $1 billion science complex, which will house a stem cell institute, will stay... more ›

The rumor mill is working overtime about Harvard's next president. And it doesn't look like the Lampoon is behind the latest rumors, although it would be pretty entertaining if it were. more ›

The staff of the Harvard Lampoon, whom Bostonist last saw honoring Danny Bonaduce, sent out prank e-mails announcing that Harvard's next president would be – ta-da! – Larry Summers. more ›

Harvard students were producing yet another season of Ivory Tower. The good folks at IvyGate just reminded us that season 4 of the all new Ivory Tower is well under way. The Harvard College soap opera describes themselves as a show "Completely acted, directed, written, and produced by Harvard undergraduates, Ivory Tower is Harvard’s very own soap opera. Both parodying and revealing the world of Ivy League sex, lies and privilege, college has never been this much fun! Ivory Tower provides the only campus opportunity for professionally-minded students to start producing fiction television today." After the 90's version was retired from Harvard-Radcliffe Television the show hit a hiatus until broadband brought it back. Now you can catch all the latest action from the other side of the river via YouTube. Episode 1 of season 4 hit the net in November, just last week Episode 2 was granted upload status. While students are spending their precious moments creating quality internet episodes the members of the presidential search committee are hard at work. They're still looking for that replacement for the departed Larry Summers. The Crimson recently shortened their list to four candidates; today they're saying "members have expressed enthusiasm" about two of the four. Sounds steamy – stay tuned an announcement is due in early February. In the mean time feel free to catch up on your favorite soap you keep forgetting to TiVo. more ›

Legendary Harvard Square joint Bartley's Burger Cottage, which christens it's juicy burgers after famous figures, has decided that the burger named after former president Larry Summers is passé. Maybe diners avoided the burger out of protest for Summers' foot-in-mouth comments about the abilities of female academics. Or maybe they steered clear of the burger because its toppings of swiss cheese and honey mustard sounds like a downright nasty combination. But it might be Bartley's... more ›

Seth McFarlane, creator of Family Guy and voice of Griffins - Stewey, Brian (the dog), and patriarch Peter as well as Quagmire, spoke at Harvard's Class Day yesterday. Today the Exercises of Commencement clog most of Cambridge and hoard the sheriff of Middlesex County. There's a choice of what to watch: Larry Summers' final charge to graduates at the helm of Harvard University, Jim Lehrer of News Hour on PBS, or the Family Guy. Academics... more ›

Boston intellectuals are once again duking it out on the international stage, this time in the Wall Street Journal and the London Review of Books. Professor Ruth Wisse, Harvard Professor of Yiddish and comparative literature, has a piece in today's Journal (online version requires subscription) in which she assails Professors Stephen Walt, of Harvard's Kennedy School, and John Mearsheimer (of U. Chicago) for their article in the British publication, which suggests that U.S. foreign policy decision makers are in the thrall of a small group of moneyed, pro-Israel lobbyists, and that support for Israel is not in the United States' best interest. (Walt and Mearsheimer's longer working paper, on which the LRB piece is based, can be seen here.) more ›

If you've ever felt bitter about what a large chunk of media attention the Boston area's institutions of higher learning get, and wondered why in hell you should give a damn about mighty institutions that don't care for you, Bostonist has a little bit of good news. We just learned from the cool nerds at Lifehacker that there is a wide array of MIT courses available for free over ye olde internette, via a set-up called OpenCourseWare. So now you can actually partake of some of that book learnin' that seems to cause so many heavily backpacked youngsters to wander aimlessly into traffic on Mass. Ave. And if you're more interested in the aimless, heavily tattooed youngsters wandering into a different section of Mass. Ave., Berklee, too, offers lots of free music lessons through its Berklee Shares program. If only Harvard would get on board with this program, more people might actually find Bostonist's incessant Larry Summers coverage a little more relevant. more ›

Bostonist's brief post yesterday about Harvard President Larry Summers's resignation prompted an angry comment about the triumph of political correctness over common sense. In today's Globe, Alan Dershowitz voices a similar sentiment, albeit more eloquently and without calling anyone a "panty waste" (sic). This got Bostonist to thinking: Is Summers's ouster really because he dared voice unpopular ideas, or is it because he kept using a steamroller for jobs requiring tweezers? more ›

Well, it's official. Harvard University president Larry Summers, much derided for his less-than-politic relationship with the African-American Studies Department women in science academics and administrators in general everyone and their cousin, will do a Marie St. Fleur effective June 30. This comes as the faculty was poised to take its second vote of no-confidence in Summers in less than a year on Feb. 28. The vote of the faculty has no direct effect on who leads Harvard, but the Harvard Corporation, which does make the call, is wisely wary of having too unruly a work force on its hands, or of losing more top scholars. more ›

Larry Summers just can't buy a break these days. It's getting to the point where the Harvard President ought to have the word "embattled" printed before his name on business cards. Having weathered the storms he created by alienating the African-American Studies department, women in science and math generally, and Native Americans, Summers has now moved on to just firing a respected administrator (a white male one, no less!) and using oodles of University money... more ›

Yesterday, a story hit the wire about the location of the Commonwealth’s most hazardous communities. The 59 page report was authored by Northeastern University sociology professor Daniel R. Faber and Eric J. Krieg, a professor at Johnson State College in Vermont and showed that 24 of the 30 most environmentally hazardous sites in the Bay State also had communities that were 25 percent or more non white. Bostonist can’t help but think about a memo we once read that had reportedly come from the desk of Larry Summers when he was chief economist at the World Bank in 1992. The World Bank memo, which was leaked to the press and published in The Economist might not have been written by Summers and it may have been doctored up before it was released to make the assertions more outreageous. The form we saw it the was certainly outragous. more ›

Bostonist might be wrong to think that Harvard University President Lawrence Summers may have heard it before. Maybe he just read it. Outrage from feminists, scholars, faculty, students and staff…not to mention the general public…has been directed at Larry Summers for about a month, since his comments. Summers has held his ground and has not retracted the statements he made. He has apologized if they were misconstrued. Though Summers gained much attention for the discontent for his remarks it is only fair to say that some people do back him. The Crimson gives a full report of the faculty meeting held yesterday where 250 faculty members laid into their president, ten waxing critical in statements followed by applause. From the way the meeting was described Summers must have popped a valium before the meeting. Bostonist wonders what kind of scotch they stock in the Harvard Presidential Liquor Cabinet. With a ‘widening crisis of confidence’ we’re sure that he took a couple belts of the top shelf after that meeting. With an emergency faculty meeting to be held next week perhaps Harvard will soon be in the midst of a presidential search. BU, you got any tips? more ›