Larry Summers' years of emails with Jeffrey Epstein roil Harvard

Government

Larry Summers’ ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were long public knowledge. But the recent publication of emails between the two men show they were closer than had been publicly known, creating a dilemma — and a reputational headache — for Harvard University, the Ivy League institution where Summers is on the faculty and once served as president. In interviews this week, a group of Harvard faculty members and students decried Summers’ email correspondence with Epstein, which