Word: forcefullness
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Lead prosecutor Tom (Mad Dog) Sneddon, for 22 years district attorney of California's Santa Barbara County, tried to take command of the case early, with forceful but empathic questioning. Legal analysts have scoffed that he is a relative bumpkin next to the slicker, more experienced defense team, but this...
“He would think out loud a lot more than people in the Bush administration do,” says Sanger. “I found it very refreshing. You get used to his style, which isn’t always mild. But I would always prefer a...
If Mahan and Terry are serious as they seem to be about their desire to have Harvard divest from Sudan, there are much more forceful, symbolic means of demanding that change. In the 1970s and 1980s, Harvard students campaigned for the University’s divestment from apartheid South Africa...
While Graham addressed the universality of the act of prayer, “what we’re all going through in an attempt to stay sane,” listening to the poems, one had a sensation of being lost in private words and myriad details. As she slipped...
The remedy to the “undergraduate problem” may require the type of cultural shift that Summers has initiated. Perhaps some forceful leadership with support from alumni, and even confrontation, is in order if we wish to bring balance to the faculty’s parochial perspective...