All Intensive Purposes

Larry holds his position simply by dint of the fact that he has secured commitments that future offspring of all Lord Jeff alumni will matriculate in Cambridge.
 

That, and the continuing adulation of feminist scholars everywhere. ("Who's afraid of Naomi Wolf? Larry is.)
 

Students seem overwhelming behind as per this student blog something like 70% support.
 

Although I don't know what's going on in Cambridge, I do know that what Harvard's students think is almost entirely irrelevant to whether or not Summers will be around.
 

How high do we put the odds that Summers returns as Treasury secretary in the next (Democratic) administration? Or would he turn down such a non-advancing career move to hold out for something like head of the World Bank.
 

He says he's going to take a sabbatical and then return to Harvard as a professor. I would think that that would be boring and intolerable, but since I'm not as smart as he is, what do I know? I wonder about the extent to which this whole saga has marred his stature for future jobs like head of the World Bank. Given his problems winning friends and influencing people at Harvard, would you pick him to run an institution like the World Bank?