Word: brashness
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...asides at the expense of more academic endeavors.Bok was also the president who first purchased land in Allston—a project that Summers was intimately involved in.Perhaps the most unlikely similarity lies in the two leaders’ reaction to controversy. On the surface, Summers is depicted as brash and opinionated while Bok is lauded as a talented negotiator. However, “it is a mistake to think of Bok mainly as a mediator,” Whitehead Professor of Government Dennis F. Thompson writes in an e-mail. “As president, he actually encouraged controversy...
...controversies that plagued it from the beginning—boil down to two fundamental problems: style and ethics. Everyone knows that Larry Summers was brought to Harvard to “shake things up.” For better and for worse, he has done that. His penchant for brash, inflammatory, and often vulgar statements is legendary. Indeed, it is difficult to find a faculty member at Harvard who doesn’t have a “Larry story”: an account of some unpleasant encounter with the president, in which he was unnecessarily hostile or dismissive, alienating...
...going on with that?'" That incendiary ambivalence is what makes Crash enthralling to some, infuriating to many. Anyway, it sold tickets, $53 million worth (roughly eight times its cost) and kept people talking and thinking. The Academy's L.A. voters are still doing both; that's why the brash Crash might win over the more taciturn (and artful) Brokeback...
...decades, Bob Hope was the face of Oscar night. He set the brash style, tweaking Hollywood's outsize egos, including his own. Hope was host or co-host of the event a record 17 times. (Crystal is second, with eight...
...reported to have provided extras and military hardware?he produced not only that movie, but also its even lousier sequel, Red Scorpion 2. Still, politics, not movies, remained Abramoff's real passion, and as it happened, in 1994 a new kind of opportunity had arisen in Washington for a brash and entrepreneurial conservative who had the right connections...