Word: amissions
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...details about the incidents in question are not entirely clear nor completely verifiable, but what is clear is that something is amiss in New York City. The controversy began with an as yet unreleased video of interviews with Jewish and Israeli students, produced by the advocacy group The David Project, which purportedly contains footage of several students describing verbal attacks and cases of in-class humiliation by pro-Palestinian professors in Columbia’s Middle East Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC) department. In one of the worst cases of abuse, an Israeli student alleges that a MEALAC professor refused...
...work for professors are forced to drop everything and spend the three days prior to a printers’ deadline reading a professors’ text through; undergraduate faculty aides sometimes correct mistake-addled bibliographies only hours before a conference paper must be given. Something must be seriously amiss for these authors and their editors to rush the process of production so much that their product is flawed...
...prenup. To evade paparazzi, she exchanged vows with backup dancer KEVIN FEDERLINE, 26, at what was to have been their engagement bash, a month before the planned nuptials. "I was like, 'What are we waiting for?'" Spears told PEOPLE. But when they said I do, one detail was amiss. Lawyers advised the couple, who opted for a prenup agreement and signed a marriage license, to wait a grace period after inking the prenup. They have not filed the signed license, which, Federline told PEOPLE, they'll do this week. So, Mama Spears, there's still time for intervention...
...entirely legitimate to acquire help from assistants, but that help must be limited to ensure that a piece of scholarship is indeed a scholar’s own work. When the author himself does not recognize that a text of two pages is not his own, something is amiss...
Perhaps we should have realized something was amiss in 1980. In April of that year, Zimbabwe's newly elected Prime Minister, Robert Mugabe, was appalled at the choice of the dreadlocked Third World icon Bob Marley as the main musical act for the country's independence bash. Marley tunes like Zimbabwe had helped rally the world ("Africans a liberate Zimbabwe/ Every man got a right/ To decide his own destiny") but Mugabe would have preferred the squeaky-clean Brit Cliff Richard. For once he was overruled, and the reggae star spread a message of hope that the racial strife...