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During the 10 minute piece, called “Mortaging the Earth,” two sopranos sing the parts of Summers and former Brazilian Secretary of the Environment Jose Lutzenberger, who criticized the memo in a letter to Summers...
...controversial memo on toxic industries that Summers signed over a decade ago has now been immortalized into song by a Yale music professor. The piece, a chamber work written to accompany the text of the memo, premieres in the Boston area this Saturday...
...memo, Summers—then chief economist at the World Bank—outlined three reasons why it might be economically logical for the World Bank to encourage more polluting industries in the third world...
Former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 fired the first shot in that battle, when he argued strenously against displacing the athletic fields in a memo to Allston planners last February...
...Anybody got any other questions?” Summers joked, eliciting laughs, before going on to answer a question about the now-infamous 1991 World Bank memo he signed which argued that third-world countries should be more heavily polluted...