Word: brouhaha
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...problem is, although we attach a lot of brouhaha to goodbyes, the ritual is not terribly logical—or terribly meaningful. According to convention, we should use goodbyes to relay exactly how much the other person means to us, how they have changed us, and how they will be remembered. It may be a harmless custom, but it is certainly not a meaningful one. For whatever affection or flattery is uttered in those final moments should pale in comparison to the expressions of appreciation that have built up and sustained a friendship or relationship. Those close to me know...
...meeting—in which Summers reportedly raised questions about West’s non-academic activities and informed West that he would monitor his academic output—became a public measure of Summers’s general support for affirmative action and diversity in academia. The brouhaha attracted national media attention. Summer came under attack for his abrasive style and seeming inability or unwillingness to smooth ruffled feathers. At the end of his first year, Summers’s presidency has already shown itself to be a striking contrast to Rudenstine?...
Roughly six months later, Gates got that public statement of support, but only after Summers’ support for diversity and for the department itself was called into question during the media brouhaha that surrounded the public revelation of the conflict between Summers and West...
Even with the challenger series to decide who will race Team New Zealand for the big prize still four months away, a brouhaha surrounding French challenger Le D?fi and its main sponsor Areva, a nuclear energy company, already has the yachting world abuzz. Yachting purists complain that nuclear power and wind power go together about as well as oil and water. New Zealand sailors are particularly incensed because the America's Cup village in Auckland, where the competition is based, is just meters away from where French secret agents blew up Greenpeace's protest ship Rainbow Warrior in 1985. When...
...surprising that someone came after him in print. What is surprising, and pleasantly so, is that useful information emerges from the brouhaha. Cramer's story--no matter who tells it--shows how thoroughly the culture of buzz has come to infect stock trading, and how even the SEC's new "fair disclosure" regulations fail to give average investors much chance in the short run. Pros like Cramer simply have too big an information edge...