Word: dubious
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...more than a requisite respect for protocol and humility, may lead to as few tangible results as Steiner's, even if for entirely opposite reasons. The lesson form Murphy's visit could well be that the nation is too unstable and the goals of a Harvard-sponsored program too dubious to support any Ed School program other than a very small one, or one entirely based in America. But, hoping this not to be the case, we anxiously await hearing the report of one Harvard administrator who appears finally to have made the right kind of trip to that troubled...
...days of winter: The Crimson seems to have hit a mid-season slump, as it has lost three of its last five contests. Harvard hadn't accomplished that dubious feat since it lost two straight to Wisconsin in December 1985, and then, two games later, lost...
...used to like to write in the New York Herald Tribune, "in the horse-racing sense of the term." Meaning the result was pretty well arranged. If the rules were not rigged, they were at least geared for the defenders, whose original 1851 victory on the schooner America was dubious too.* When an appealing gang of Australians flew the Cup away on a winged keel three years ago and relocated it in a western backwater near Perth, only a few millionaires with wet bottoms were very disappointed. Only Conner cried...
...convinced he was right, opposed publication of their work. The competition turned out to be correct. In the mid-1970s, Rubbia collaborated with two Americans in an experiment at Fermilab, near Chicago, on interactions of ghostly particles called neutrinos, and drew an interpretation that the team's underlings considered dubious. Rubbia publicly hailed the work as an important breakthrough; others later proved him wrong...
Khashoggi and Ghorbanifar have emerged as prominent back-channel figures in the series of hush-hush shipments of American-made weapons to Iran that has flowered into the U.S. scandal of the decade. Of all the dubious aspects of that affair, one of the most unsavory is that U.S. national policy became entangled with the maneuvers of private arms dealers. At best, President Reagan and some of his aides, prominently including Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, showed atrocious judgment by plunging into a devious policy without professional diplomatic guidance. At worst, the White House has laid itself open to the nasty...