felix "spectacular imprudence"

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/magazine/10wwln-summers-t.html?_r=1

“I think it was, in retrospect, an act of spectacular imprudence,” [....] He still maintains that some critics mischaracterized his remarks, but the bottom line is that girls around the world came to think that the president of Harvard believed they couldn’t be scientists. “There are enormous benefits to being a leader of a major institution, but there are also costs and limitations,” he continued. “I thought I could have it both ways, and I was wrong.”

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 [M]aking globalization work for the masses — has become the central economic issue of the day in Summers’s mind. And since his Harvard presidency ended [....] he has set out on a search for solutions. To him, it seems like a natural sequel to the policies he pushed in the 1990s.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/magazine/10wwln-summers-t.html?_r=1