Word: firestorm
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Summers ignited a firestorm of criticism in 2001 when he allegedly questioned the commitment of then-professor Cornel R. West ’74 to teaching and scholarship. West and his colleague K. Anthony Appiah—both seen as crown jewels in Harvard’s Department of Afro-American Studies—left for Princeton, and Summers was accused of leading a once strong department into very public disarray...
...years ago, former Princeton president William Bowen ignited a firestorm by claiming that collegiate athletics were too professionalized and too intense...
...disclosure touched off a firestorm of criticism on Quad House e-mail lists this weekend, as residents protested the loss of Hilles and what they perceived to be a unilateral decision on the part of University administrators...
...book seems certain to kick up a political and diplomatic firestorm. The first question everyone will ask is, Is it true? And many will wonder if these matters were addressed in the 28 pages censored from Washington's official report on 9/11. It has long been suggested that Saudi Arabia probably had some kind of secret arrangement to stave off fundamentalists within the kingdom. But this appears to be the first description of a repeated, explicit quid pro quo between bin Laden and a Saudi official. Posner told TIME he got the details of Zubaydah's interrogation and revelations from...
...very private man, completely unused to the star-chamber treatment. I think his mental defenses were so weak that during his testimony he was actually in a state of some confusion." Because he had talked to Gilligan, "he thought he was responsible for this huge political firestorm, and he was thrust into a public world he'd never seen." His suicide, this official believes, was not an expression of shame, but the irrational conclusion of a depressed mind. The untimely death of a good man caught in a war between the government and the BBC - "someone who did more...