Word: abuzz
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...wasn’t always this way. In 1978, as the Core was being readied for Faculty approval, this campus was abuzz with controversy. 2,500 undergraduates signed a petition calling for more student input; a Crimson poll reported that 65 percent of students opposed the plan. Even freshman proctors issued a collective statement against the changes. This newspaper urged students “to engage in organized protest” against the Core, “for the sake of a better Harvard education and for opposing the elitist process used to formulate the proposal...
...past two weeks the talk of the international stage has been North Korean president Kim Jong Il and his testing of a nuclear weapon, which made its three neighbors, South Korea, China and Japan nervous and gave the Bush Administration one more headache. Since then, the web has been abuzz with news, viewpoints and factoids about the DPRK. Here is a selection of some of the most interesting items the Internet has to offer on the subject...
...widespread civil unrest. When the dust settled, the Argentine peso was trading at roughly four to the American dollar, after a decade of parity. Europeans and North Americans began to trickle into Buenos Aires to take advantage of the exchange rate, and lately the media’s been abuzz about South America’s “best kept secret.” This publicity comes right on the heels of a 2006 global cost of living survey conducted by Mercer Human Resource Consulting that placed Buenos Aires as the 142nd most expensive city in the world...
Amanda Congdon, the former co-producer and host of Rocketboom, a popular video blog, left the site this week after a dispute with producer-director Andrew Baron. The news of Congdon's departure - which she announced, in Star Jones-like fashion, in her own vlog - has set the blogosphere abuzz. Now Rocketboom fans are watching the first video blog from her replacement, former MTV Europe News VJ Joanne Colan. TIME's Catherine Sharick talked with Congdon about her feud and her future...
...controversy surrounding Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 is tinged with disappointment—disappointment with the unfounded conclusions to which many have jumped, disappointment with the utter glee with which some have skewered her, and, of course, disappointment with Viswanathan’s actions themselves.The campus is abuzz with conversation and debate about the similarities between Viswanathan’s new novel “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life” and two books by Megan F. McCafferty, “Sloppy Firsts” and “Second Helpings...