Word: fester
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Thousands of Frank Martinellis and hundreds of Father Bretts cast a dark shadow over the Roman Catholic Church this Eastertide--and so have the U.S. bishops who let the crimes fester. The crisis gathers steam day after day, with perhaps 2,000 priests accused of abuse across the country and hot lines jamming with more victims' calls. It is not just what Boston's Bernard Cardinal Law called "a tragic error" but a spiritual and financial body blow to church authority as well, demoralizing to every man who wears a Roman collar. Lives have been hurt, trust damaged...
...without further drastic changes, the deeper problems underlying the Core curriculum will continue to fester. Although Harvard should provide its students with a broad liberal arts education, the current Core program does more harm than good. Instead of allowing students to choose among the enriching courses that are offered in Harvard’s diverse array of concentrations, as a distribution requirement would do, the Core restricts students to choosing among watered-down survey courses that barely scrape the surface of the intended subject material. Similar departmental courses with identical approaches to knowledge—exposure to which...
...imbalances have not been allowed to fester" - whatever that means - and "if the recent, more favorable developments continue and gain momentum, uncertainties will diminish" and good times will soon follow. It might take another interest-rate cut at the next Fed get-together ending Jan. 30, and then again it might not; media consensus on the speech's portent was that Big Al "left the door open" to another...
...than the bunny. Roth is poking fun at the heroism and self-aggrandizement that is often associated with sculpture. Beuys does not aim at permanence with his sculptures, but by attempting to defy time they succeed in accepting it and even reveling in it. Like human beings, his works fester and rot. Roth has no interest in being the glorious artist whose work is completed with the final stroke of the chisel. He encourages the changes that time inflicts as his work takes on a life...
Dartboard recognizes that grade inflation exists and that it is a problem both at Harvard and at every other institution around the country. Furthermore, Dartboard is not advocating letting this problem fester, but is appalled at the inconsiderate manner the University is taking to solve this problem. Two issues come to mind...