Word: criticize
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...recent report overseen by former Army Major General John Batiste, who headed the 1st Infantry Division and has been a vocal critic of the Administration's handling of the war, says the choice Bush faces in Iraq is stark: "We have reached the point where we need to ask the question whether it is more important to preserve the country of Iraq with its fa?ade of democratic government, or protect our own national security interests...
...film critic, I could talk about Brown?s infrequent but influential career on the big screen. Fans cherish his too-brief appearances in the Blues Brothers movies, and his demolishing of the all-star competition (the Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys, Chuck Berry, Marvin Gaye) in the T.A.M.I. Show concert film of 1965. Remember, too, the prissy fury that Shrevie, the obsessive rock-LP collector in Diner, summons when he realizes the extent of his bride?s musical ignorance - ?How could you file my James Brown record under J?? Right now, Soul Brother No. 1 is being impersonated by Eddie...
...critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again...who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly...
...with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and for his now-infamous remarks about the intrinsic aptitude of women in science. Summers announced his resignation in February, days before the Faculty was set to vote on a second no-confidence motion. Summers lost the first 218-185. An outspoken critic of Summers and the sponsor of the second no-confidence vote, Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan, wrote in an e-mail that she was not surprised by BusinessWeek’s ranking. “Leadership, in the sense of being persuasive enough to motivate...
...colleague, film critic Richard Schickel, has observed that Gibson has little use for the institutional Roman Catholic church, preferring a "less mainstream version of his faith." True, but the Traditionalists with whom Gibson is often associated are defined primarily by their objections to the liberalizations under the Second Vatican Council of 1962-5 - not an issue in Jaguar...