Ex-Harvard President Meets a Former Student, and Intellectual Sparks Fly

nytimes.com — The pitch — “a YouTube for ideas” — appealed to Mr. Summers. “Larry, to his credit, is open to new ideas,” Mr. Hopkins recalled recently. “He grilled me for two hours.” In the age of user-generated content, Mr. Summers did have one worry: “Let’s say someone puts up a porn video next to my macroeconomic speech?” Jan 7, 2008 View in Crawl 4