Word: firestorm
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...misleading article, one ill-informed comment, and a firestorm later, we found ourselves caught in a dispute that we didn’t even know existed. Loaded phrases in the news article’s headline and glance boxes and the article’s instances of misquoting and misrepresentation, as well as its placement on the front page, implied antagonism and aggressive tactics that simply did not occur. We are especially angered that The Crimson’s sensationalism has cast aspersions on a performance as important to this campus as Cultural Rhythms...
...recent firestorm surrounding Summers’ remarks on women in science was cited as evidence of Summers’ discriminatory practices...
...February 1992, and the rest of the media quickly picked up the story. A firestorm of criticism ensued, and with that, the tone for the next 15 years of Summers coverage was established...
...will note that I find it odd that it is uncontroversial to say that men tend to be taller than women or that men and women have different brain structures and compositions, but that Summers’s assertions caused as much of a firestorm as they...
...well-meaning Coalition lost me with the subject line—I don’t much appreciate being e-shouted at. What followed, moreover, was a ridiculous laundry list of demands that demonstrated an ill-conceived (and unfair) attempt to roll a host of campus issues into the firestorm around President Summers’ leadership...