Word: furore
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Summers has faced what is unquestionably the most challenging period of his tenure in the first three months of 2005, and some have questioned his staff amid the furor...
...been invited to speak there, had penned an essay equating U.S. foreign policy with Nazi Germany's conduct in World War II and labeling some of the people working in the World Trade Center "little Eichmanns," after the architect of the Holocaust. Hamilton canceled Churchill's engagement, but the furor spread. Outraged Colorado house members unanimously passed a resolution condemning his "evil and inflammatory" words. Colorado Governor Bill Owens called on Churchill to resign and urged lawmakers to consider changing tenure rules, normally the purview of the school and the elected board of regents that governs the state system. Wisconsin...
McNeil, whose appointment in 2002 reflected a new era of interest in the Harvard presidency, said she was departing on her own accord and had begun planning to leave before Summers’ comments on women in science sparked a furor that threatened his job and drew national attention to the University...
...course, the biggest controversy on campus has been the furor over University President Lawrence H. Summers’ comments on gender and science. But the problem of “overdoing it” was also evident last week after Jada Pinkett Smith’s “heteronormative” comments at Cultural Rhythms. I am not arguing that critics of both Summers and Pinkett Smith are wrong or raising unimportant issues; to the contrary, the recent discussions at Harvard about gender and sexuality are immensely significant within and beyond the gates of Harvard...
...RESIGNED. EASON JORDAN, 44, CNN's chief news executive; amid a furor over his apparent suggestion last month that coalition forces in Iraq had deliberately killed journalists; in Atlanta. He later backtracked, saying he was referring to journalists "shot at by American forces who mistook them for the enemy...