July 1: Cambridge, MA: Lawrence Summers becomes president of Harvard.
Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury becomes first Jewish president of Harvard…tenure lasts five years…
Ultimately undone in 2006 by left–wingers in the Humanities Department (who presumably never quite forgave him for tangling frontally with rabidly pro–Palestinian academics in 2002 or with Cornel West in 2001).
But destined to “rise again” later under President Barak Obama.