Word: explaining
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Last week Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Medical School, and five other distinguished doctors wrote to The New York Times to explain how splendid the swine flu immunization program had been. Not ones to indulge in the luxury of hind-sight, the doctors defended the ill-fated campaign, writing that "faced with the situation at that time, we would have been forced to the same conclusion." Probably true, but nothing to boast about...
Even more clever has been the "logic" the administration has used to explain discrimination against the Afro-American Studies department. One tenured person would not be enough to make recommendations for additional tenured positions; therefore, special sub-committees of the FAS would usurp the responsibility of the department in making such recommendations. In the early years, the standing committee was responsible for the selection and appointment of two tenured faculty in the department. After three years, the standing committee was abolished, and there was only one tenured member of the department, the chairman, Professor Guinier. Next came the sub-committee...
...Murdoch's ambition is to overcome his resentment at being forever considered an outsider?at Geelong Grammar, at Oxford, in Sydney, on Fleet Street. Up to a point, Murdoch agrees: "New York welcomes newcomers. In England, if one is an outsider there is suspicion." Still other Murdoch-watchers explain that the inveterate gambler is merely playing two-up with bigger stakes these days. Too bloody right, admits Murdoch: "Publishing is a life of constant calculated risks. That's also what gambling...
Spokesmen for Murdoch at the Post said yesterday they could not explain the ouster of Wilson and the other member, Mary Joan Glynn, a cosmetics executive for the Revlon Corporation...
Katherine Kleeman '76, senior advisor to freshmen at South House, said yesterday she does not think that the open dampers explain why the temperature dropped...