Word: firestorms
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...this year saw fair Harvard get more than its fair share of headlines and airtime. At a conference sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), University President Lawrence H. Summers proved too provocative for his audience. He promptly found himself in the middle of a media firestorm over his citing of the hypothesis that women trailed men in innate ability in mathematics and science. That evening, controversial Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly took on another Harvard news item—the College’s hiring of a so-called “fun czar...
...occasion came about two weeks after Summers’ comments at an economics conference about innate differences between men and women’s abilities in science touched off a firestorm of controversy...
Wilson, it turns out, had crafted the question with the help of a reporter embedded with his unit. It was Rumsfeld's response, though, that instantly ignited a firestorm. "You go to war with the Army you have," Rumsfeld told Wilson, "not the Army you might want or wish to have at a later time." While the Bush Administration has been criticized for its refusal to acknowledge the scale of the dangers in Iraq, Rumsfeld's comments, however unintentionally, conveyed something far more disturbing, a seemingly blithe disregard for the welfare of troops. "You can talk like that...
Rocco Buttiglione could hardly have anticipated the firestorm he was about to unleash. Appearing earlier this month at what should have been a routine hearing before a European Parliament committee, the E.U. Commissioner - designate for Justice, Freedom and Security was asked about discrimination against homosexuals. In response Buttiglione, a close friend and a biographer of Pope John Paul II, cited his Roman Catholic faith and said he considered homosexuality a "sin" and marriage an institution intended to give women "the right to have children and the protection of a man." What happened next was anything but routine. Many committee members...
This was the firestorm that met Kidd when she assumed her post one month later...