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...husband Joseph Wilson for suggesting in public that the Bush Administration had stretched the evidence about Saddam Hussein's nuclear arsenal in order to justify a new kind of war. With the latest polls showing support for that war waning and anger over its price tag rising, the Wilson flap fueled the perception that the White House cared more about selling its case for war than ensuring that the case was right in the first place...
...hope invested in McNabb, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he didn't deserve. The defense carried this team." The show's other regulars, two of them black, did not challenge Limbaugh on the racist tinge of his remark. But the flap took wings, and by Wednesday Limbaugh had, under ESPN pressure, submitted his resignation...
...Grasso, the lifelong exchange employee with ticker tape in his veins and a trademark shaved head. Highly respected for his leadership and results, he has become tossed about in the battle over corporate governance because of a pay flap that won't go away. The tipping point came last week when the exchange, in a letter responding to inquiries from Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman William Donaldson, detailed a trove of Grasso enrichments--from the requisite car and driver, private-jet privileges and club memberships to a previously undisclosed $48 million in benefits due him by 2007. That...
Just over a year after a high-profile flap with the University’s top administration and the subsequent defections of two star professors left Harvard’s Afro-American Studies Department badly shaken, the department is back on its feet and has hired several new faculty, according to its chair...
...anxious climate that grew in the wake of the flap between former professor Cornel R. West ’74 and University President Lawrence H. Summers and the departures of West and colleague K. Anthony Appiah has dissipated...