Word: brouhaha
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...recent brouhaha within the Committee on Undergraduate Education over the posting of course grades alongside student names and identification numbers lacks both sense and sensibility. In the first place, the debate is somewhat removed from reality because while the official Information for Instructors handbook prohibits professors from posting grades by either ID number or name, the practice is not uncommon among the Faculty. Further, the rule itself is misguided in that, if enforced, students will be prevented from receiving their grades in a timely fashion. And, finally, the current edition of the Teaching Fellows' Handbook, published by the Graduate School...
This prudence is well founded. During the interminable budget brouhaha, Republicans in Congress and on the campaign trail have often come across as soulless CPAS at an actuarial seminar, talking of CBO figures versus OMB numbers, more concerned with monetary matters than morality. "The budget battle," says conservative guru Bill Kristol, "played into the two great Republican vulnerabilities: that we are the party of the rich and the meanspirited." While Republicans donned their green eyeshades, the Great Empathizer in the White House cornered the compassion market. The President's constant refrain that "we should balance the budget...
Amidst the brouhaha over the mayoral selection process, some say they believe the position of mayor is really not that important...
...never realizing it was verboten. A meeting among Harding, Smith, Bob and the photographer only worsened the situation. At the end of it, Smith claimed Bob's car hit him. Bob claimed Smith jumped on his car and Harding rammed Bob's car with hers. The Globe decided the brouhaha did nothing to diminish the value of the photos, and paid up. Who says romance is dead...
...United Nations Security Council, intent on keeping the heat on the Bosnian Serbs, has unanimously passed a resolution demanding "immediate and unrestricted access" to areas where war crimes may have been committed. In other events, the brouhaha between President Clinton and Bob Dole over who, if anyone, should spend Christmas with the U.S. troops in Bosnia continued as Clinton announced Friday that, as much as he wanted to go, he would not. "I would go tomorrow, literally, tomorrow," the President said after emerging from a briefing at the Pentagon. "But I think it's very important that...