Word: brouhaha
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...said the brouhaha over grade inflation influenced student perceptions of the course and its grading policy...
...Debate between government delegations centered on setting concrete goals for increasing the use of renewable energy sources and access to clean water, as well as improving poor people's access to health. Broadly, Europe wanted targets set for 2015; the U.S. and a few other states did not. A brouhaha over trade also erupted. Politicians from developing countries see free trade?especially the scrapping of the estimated $1 billion a day in subsidies to Western farmers?as key to sustainable development. But Western green groups complained that the World Trade Organization had hijacked the summit. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe used...
...Carolina at Chapel Hill, which customarily assigns a book to its incoming freshmen, chose Approaching the Qur'an, a set of heavily annotated excerpts from the Muslim Holy Writ. Chancellor James Moeser reportedly asked his trustees, "What could be more timely?" And what could be more predictable than the brouhaha that followed: the rumbling overture on Christian websites; the brassy solo by Fox News's Bill O'Reilly, who compared the assignment to having students read Hitler's Mein Kampf in 1941; and the inevitable legal coda? The Virginia-based Family Policy Network, a Christian group, sued U.N.C., claiming...
...brouhaha justified? Wimmer, who has been studying polio for more than 33 years, says it was important to demonstrate that viruses can be made from scratch. Polio is a disease that would be of little interest to terrorists, he argues: there is a readily available vaccine, and terrorists are unlikely to copy Wimmer's technique when it is easier to obtain deadly viruses in nature. Smallpox, the one bug that can't be found there, is too complex to be made this way. So why all the fuss? Says Wimmer: "There is something with viruses that strikes a chord...
...into the Pledge, the "under God" phrase didn't exist. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle declared the decision "just nuts," and President Bush took time from a press conference with G-8 leaders to pronounce the whole thing "ridiculous." (Asked during the same appearance to comment on the brouhaha, Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared nonplussed...