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'Summers Storm' Overshadows a Worthy Topic

NPR | By Daniel Schorr
Published February 23, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST

NPR's senior news analyst says the furor that erupted after Harvard University President Lawrence Summers' controversial remarks about women in the sciences has obscured what was an otherwise thoughtful discussion of diversity.

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Daniel Schorr passed away on Friday, July 23, 2010. See an obituary, photo gallery and an archive of Schorr's commentaries for NPR.
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