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2. Larry Summers. Being called an asshole by Larry Summers is sort of like being called a paranoid dictator by Kim Jong-il. Summers, as well as serving as Grand Poobah Asshole at a university of assholes, famously remarked in 2005 that low numbers of women in the top echelons of the science and engineering professions were due to "issues of intrinsic aptitude." (What a sexist asshole!) It doesn't always take an asshole to know one, but Summers can consider himself better-schooled on the subject than most.
