Good catch and a very real possibility.

"Yet, Summers was a notorious failure in the fairly easy job of being president of Harvard."

He forgot the golden rule.

"Never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut."

He had the temerity to say Cornel West is a lazy punkass fraud and that sexual differences may account for lower female achievement in math and science.

I hope to finish FOUNTAINHEAD one day but I never had much desire to read ATLAS SHRUGGED. The latter seems like a strike novel, except it's about employers than employees going on strike. Do I wanna read a 1000 pg tome about conflict of economic interests?
The economy is essential to our world but not very exciting.

What makes FOUNTAINHEAD a glorious read is its hero of the creative-visionary-artist-architect. Though most people associate Rand with money, wealth, and power, Roark is appealing for his pure commitment to his art and vision. He will not sell out for money, fame, or acceptance. He's a starving artist, and Rand adores, indeed worships, him for it. Better to be pure and poor than rich and ridiculous.
Of course, Roark is, in some ways, Rand after an imaginary race/sex change operation into a tall wasp male.

So, Rand wasn't all about money or for money for money sake. For Rand, money was a means to gain something else. A gangster version of Randism would be Tony Montana(and I'll bet Stone, the screenwriter, was a Rand fan as a kid).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ7HZATMKBY

In FOUNTAINHEAD, Roark meets a superrich media tycoon, but Rand thinks more highly of Roark than the rich guy(whose name I forget). She admires the rich guy as an economic giant, but that's not enough to make the Randian pantheon. A business visionary isn't the quite the same thing as an artistic visionary. To succeed in business, one has to shake hands, make compromises, and give the vulgar masses what they want. The rich guy did so and made a shitload of money, but he possesses nothing that is pure; even the woman is something he bought than truly won. Roark, in contrast, may never realize his dreams, but his dreams are pure as gold.
What Rand idealizes is the partnership between the superrich guy and the pure artist. The rich guy will roll up his sleeves, make a shitload of money from the stupid masses, and then use that money to finance the great pure project of the great artist. There lies the true meaning and worth of money and power: to support the great genius who cannot be understood in his own time but may come to change the course of history. Money is a means, not an end.
In a way, it was the Old Hollywood ideal too. Moguls would make 10-20 movies for mass tastes to make lots of money and then finance a film of artistic worth. And it was in this way that CITIZEN KANE got made. Welles enjoyed complete artistic license and the entire gizmo of studio machinery cuz the moguls had made enough money to finance such 'radical' projects. And though underappreciated in its time, no movie changed the course of film history as much as CITIZEN KANE. So, there is some value in Randism.

But it exposes the contradiction in her worldview. She opposed altruism, but the argument in FOUNTAINHEAD is essentially altruistic. The message is that a man should seek great fortune not for fortune's sake but to support the pure artist who refuses to make compromises. The businessman must compromise(lose his soul to gain the world) to enable the pure artist to realize his pure dream. It's like the Medicis did a lot of bad shit to rake in megabucks but then used that money to patronize some of the greatest works of art ever.

In the end, the rich guy in FOUNTAINHEAD sacrifices his fortune, life, and woman so that Roark can realize his vision and triumph as god-man. If that aint altruism, I don't know what is. So, when Rand opposed altruism, I think she meant she shouldn't live for others but not that others shouldn't live for her.

Roark of FOUNTAINHEAD is promethean, a creative force, which makes him more interesting and inspiring the Atlas-like figures in the longer novel. Their service to the world, as crucial as it is, is phyusical. They are the shoulders, not the creative minds, of the world.

"Atlas Shrugged, and most all other futuristic novels totally missed the boat about the importance of race in politics and advancing government control."

It is not a futuristic novel. It's less prophecy than a jeremiad or testament. Rand was about how things should be than shall be.