Word: frayed
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...doesn’t matter,” said Harvard Extension School student Randall Edmonston. “You have to throw out your own personal beliefs—separate your politics from your mission.” Many of the panelists said officers should stay above the political fray. “I believe the military should be an apolitical institution,” Brooks said. “We’re serving the American Constitution, not any given president or administration...
...Duckworth is one of several veterans of the war in Iraq to enter the political fray this election, and some have questioned whether Democrats-namely Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Rahm Emanuel, the Illinois representative who is thought to have personally recruited Duckworth-were exploiting a veteran wracked with emotional and physical scars. Duckworth dismisses such talk, as well as the notion that the race is about national issues like the war. "I've been under much more stress when people's lives are on the line," she said. "This I can handle...
Newspapers cannot cover a community from some lofty perch, unresponsive and above the fray. Journalism at its best brings reporters to the disparate and the dirty, the lawmakers and the lawbreakers—and then brings those stories to the readers. We are a part of our community, and we must engage that community. We hope this column is a positive step in that direction...
After making another mistake, Lee finds herself at the center of a journalistic maelstorm, after she accidentally divulges emotional secrets to an embittered New York Times reporter. No matter how hard Lee fights to remain below the obvious social fray, she is continually part of the barrage of popularity bullets...
...mere presence on campus does not violate a law school’s right to associate, regardless of how repugnant the law school considers the recruiter’s message.”Throughout the legal battle, Harvard University has largely remained on the sidelines, only formally entering the fray last fall when it joined a friend-of-the-court brief supporting FAIR’s case. But faculty members took a more active role, and last fall, 40 Harvard law professors filed their own brief in the case. In yesterday’s opinion, the court singled...