Word: clashes
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...nation's top teams. The Bears lost to Duke 10-7, 13th ranked Hofstra, 10-9 in overtime, and Syracuse 13-12, and defeated Loyola, Md. 13-10. Brown opens league play this week hosting Yale (2-1, 4-2) Wednesday, and travelling to Princeton Saturday, for a clash of the League's only top-ten teams and the winners of the last four Ivy League championships (Brown 1991 and 1994, Princeton...
...fiasco, Yale claimed that giving back the money, intended to endow a new program in Western Civilization, was an act of courage in the face of unreasonable demands. Some critics of the administration claimed a Pyrrhic victory for multiculturalism. At heart, though, it was managerial ineptitude and a clash of egos that ruined the deal...
...says Comparative Literature professor Michael Holquist, who, along with Comp Lit chairman Peter Brooks, was one of the earliest and most open critics of the Bass-funded program. The problem was that "the money was being given to support Kagan," says Holquist. "In the academy, it's always a clash of egos." Even those in Kagan's camp agree that a personal power struggle, rather than multicultural objections, was the source of friction...
...question the prosecutor did not answer was Raul's motive for the crime. Friends and some government officials intimate that if Raul Salinas is guilty, his involvement may stem less from politics than from personal animus and the clash between powerful egos. Government sources say Raul, who has lived in the shadow of his younger brother ever since their father began grooming Carlos for national politics, deeply resented his hard-driving, often arrogant former brother-in-law. Ruiz Massieu was supposed to have sometimes been openly disdainful of Raul. The hostility between the two men may have deepened in recent...
...they search for answers, the noisy clash of egos and the confusion of conflicting claims may be taken as signs that science is alive and well and likely on the cusp of a major new insight. Says astrophysicist John Bahcall of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton: "Every time we get slapped down, we can say, 'Thank you Mother Nature,' because it means we're about to learn something important...