Word: dismissal
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Serious students of Middle Eastern affairs dismiss Erdman's scenario as wildly improbable, but his book is still being bought by many people who do not ordinarily purchase thrillers. Known readers include many of the corporate executives who attended the Time Inc. Energy Conference in Williamsburg, Va.; Saudi Arabian Minister of Industry and Electricity Ghazi Al-Qusaibi ("I thought it was fun reading, but I certainly don't take it seriously"); and some diplomats at the Iranian embassy in Washington. The book is banned in Iran itself, but Western visitors keep being asked by Iranian friends to bring...
...easiest to dismiss the recommendations of the three most recently released reports. For example, the long-awaited task force report on the composition of the student body, released in late April, recommended that the Harvard-Radcliffe admissions office continue to do a fine job in admitting good candidates. The task force on pedagogical improvement recommended that if the College wanted good teachers it should hire good teachers--an interesting if mundane suggestion it took two years to mull over. The need to consider teaching qualities in tenuring faculty members is an important recommendation. But it is one that will most...
...that time, all had a particular social purpose; none were merely inventions of an aberrant Madison Avenue mind. In his novel Home Free, Dan Wakefield reduces the symbols of the flower child era to cliches and stereotypes, and in so doing, he joins the ranks of those who wrongly dismiss the outgrowths of that period as psychedelic nonsense...
Before he is confirmed, Keenan should renounce his ties to the RSKU project, and offer the Harvard community a complete explanation of his role in Iran. Barring this, the Overseers should dismiss the Keenan nomination outright...
...local municipal forces is not necessarily accurate. Though Harvard's police are no longer mere security guards, they do not usually face the same dangers as the city police. "You don't get too many armed robberies in Houghton Library," one police official said recently. Harvard administrators also dismiss the union's argument that the reduced fringe benefits will discourage future employment by noting that the union's own rules--which require all new officers to work night shifts and other undesirable hours for several years before attaining seniority--go much further to detract from the force's desirability...