Word: figureheads
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...controversy, it is the curricular review that has been three-plus years in the making and has yielded generally reasonable, if not laudable, proposals. If members of the College community can come together and focus their efforts on the curricular review, as Kirby has suggested, it will need no figurehead. The future of the College lies in the execution of this agenda, and that execution must begin...
...permanent dean or president—that the departure of two men could leave the process so crippled—has little basis in reality. If members of the College community can come together and focus their efforts on the curricular review, as Kirby suggests, it will need no figurehead. Although the impulse to wait for a new dean before completing the curricular review—presumably in order to allow the new dean to somehow put his or her mark on the project—seems reasonable at first glance, we fail to see the impact such...
...relationship with the al-Qaeda leadership. And the public statements attributed to Zarqawi and those of Ayman al-Zawahiri have been noticeably at odds over questions of beheading kidnap victims and of wanton violence against Shiite Muslims. Zarqawi may have embraced the Qaeda brand with Bin Laden as its figurehead, but his essentially autonomous field operation in Iraq has become the movement's center of gravity...
Then he, in turn, stunned the political world by putting all three of his rivals into his Cabinet. It was a seemingly dangerous act, since it risked building up a potential opponent in the next election and ensured that he would be seen by many as a mere figurehead. His opponents were certain that he had failed this first test of leadership. "The construction of a Cabinet," one critical editorial suggested, "like the courting of a shrewd girl, belongs to a branch of the fine arts with which the new Executive is not acquainted. There are certain little tricks which...
...first of many public faux pas committed by University President Lawrence H. Summers. It was 2002, and Harvard’s new figurehead was widely criticized for equating divestment from Israel to one of many “actions that are anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent.” And, as we are familiar with the reaction to Summers’ controversial comments—and the uproar they can stir—a debate was borne, inciting some serious discussion about a controversial and complicated issue. Though we disagreed with Summers’ conflation...