Word: disrupter
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...Wednesday, Eliot Spitzer hit bottom. For a man who so often seized the moral high ground, it was an excruciating fall. Clad in his trademark starched white shirt, the governor resigned, sunk by his stunning patronage of a high-end prostitution ring. "I cannot allow my private failings to disrupt the people's work," he said. "To every New Yorker, and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for, I sincerely apologize...I look back on my time as governor with a sense of what might have been." His wife Silda stood heartbreakingly next...
...there for students, not for tourists—and they have been the site of endless instances of public discourse throughout the centuries. Certainly chalk is no more foreign than black steel trash cans or Poland Springs delivery trucks, both of which enjoy free access. Chalk does not disrupt the equilibrium between artifact and organism that the Yard currently enjoys; it would, if anything, enhance...
...lowered quality of education for the students involved. Education consists of far more than mere classroom experiences. Community integration, extracurricular activities, and after school programs all weave together the fabric of a student’s educational experience, and programs aimed at integration must be careful not to drastically disrupt these elements of a child’s schooling. Moreover, integration programs should pay special attention to the abundance of social-scientific research detailing the impact of such efforts on student learning outcomes. Ultimately, public schooling, be it race-conscious or not, must be primarily focused on the overall quality...
...fifty years, you would begin to see major variations,” he said, adding that the accumulation of temperature changes from year to year would disrupt snowfall patterns by preventing the cyclones that produce snowstorms...
...play badly in Pakistan, where America's unflagging support for Musharraf is widely despised. Indeed, some officials in the U.S. State Department cringed at the less-than-diplomatic tone Bush adopted with Pakistan's soon to be new government. But the U.S. has valid concerns that political instability could disrupt Pakistan's campaign against extremists along the border with Afghanistan, says one State Department official who requested anonymity. Our position "really does come down to what's going to get our hands on the people that are up there in the northwest quicker. And a protracted constitutional challenge...