Word: feuded
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...feud between Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 has become old news; indeed, it seems that at least some of the friction was hype created by the media’s ever-present desire to have a feeding frenzy at Harvard’s expense. Still, the issues this controversy raises are anything but ephemeral, cutting to the heart of some of the most fundamental principles upon which Harvard—or for that matter any University—is based...
...issue raised by Summers’ and West’s feud is the responsibility of professors. Academia is perhaps the only field of employment where, after reaching a certain level of achievement, one receives total job security for the rest of one’s life. Tenured professors are, in a sense, on the honor system. They do not have to publish a single book—indeed, they don’t even have to publish a single article—to keep their jobs. Summers, West and every other tenured professor in this and all universities...
There's a difference too between this debate and the anguish millions of parents endure, and put their kids through, while trying to decide whether to live together or apart. Compared with that, a scholarly family feud may seem a mere tempest in a teacup...
...residence. This also costs $100, or more than triple the price of the city's regular hotel. But at least his armed guards aren't shooting each other. Those of commander Hazrat Ali are. He says two families in his militia used their Kalashnikovs to settle a long-standing feud. Two people died. "This is Afghanistan," he explains. "It had nothing to do with the government." It's an apt summary of the depth of the nation's problems...
...both real and imagined, has been legendary for generations. But like so many institutions of China's imperial past, the temple was violently severed from its historical roots by the political upheavals of the 20th century. Its red-walled halls and library were reduced to rubble in a warlords' feud in 1928, and its long-cultivated traditions withered under decades of communist repression. Now, thanks in large part to the latest kick-flick craze, Shaolin is again in bloom and its alumni, at home and abroad, are vying for the fruits of its revival...