Tag Archives: Larry Summers

Dead Blogging Alan Dershowitz At Ford Hall Forum

Harvey Silverglate interviewing Alan Dershowitz is ten pounds of lawyer in a five-pound bag. But that’s exactly what Ford Hall Forum presented Thursday night in its program Taking the Stand, which just happens also to be the title of Dershowitz’s … Continue reading

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MoDo A No-Show For Bulger Trial Finale

Where’s MoDo? New York Times Op-It Girl Maureen Dowd came slumming a couple of times during the James “Whitey” Bulger hoedown and contributed, well, not much to the trial coverage. Representative sample: In return for being that most loathed thing … Continue reading

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Larry Summers Is A Bigger A**hole Than The Winklevoss Twins

The always newsworthy Ron Suskind has a new book out – Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President – which, according to Friday’s New York Times, “quotes White House documents that say [Pres.] Obama’s decisions were … Continue reading

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It’s Good To Live In a Two-Daily Town (Hat Trick Edition)

Forget what the hardworking staff has said about the Boston Herald being a lively index to the Boston Globe. Tuesday’s editions of the local dailies are a tale of two cities. Exhibit A: Larry Summers Time BH: Summers praises Mass. … Continue reading

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