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<p>I'm thinking that the editorial writer might get about a B- in Expository Writing: Nice development of a global thesis, which is but a half-truth at best.</p>
<p>Effective leadership in the service of "Veritas" also includes at least a dollop of humility, collegiality, respect for others, interpersonal skills, and casting an enticing vision, in addition to intellectual firepower, ambition, tenacity, and friends in high places who got him appointed in the first place, ... remember?... with the assurances that his rough edges were no longer so rough.</p>
<p>For all its weirdness and shortcomings, there is a brilliance to the place, and tarnishing the brand can only be tolerated for so long. Turning Summers into a "victim" does him a disservice and exhibits the kind of "truthiness" that is anathema to veritas. It was a bad match; leave it at that and move on.</p>