Summers' $150,000 wardrobe -- was supplied by the organizers

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/01/17/summers_remarks_on_women_draw_fire/

Summers said he was only putting forward hypotheses based on the scholarly work assembled for the conference, not expressing his own judgments -- in fact, he said, more research needs to be done on these issues 
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The conference, on women and minorities in the science and engineering workforce, was a private, invitation-only event, with about 50 attendees. 
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Summers spoke during a working lunch. [....] He said he was synthesizing the scholarship that the organizers had asked him to discuss [....]