Word: furore
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Harvard graduates.” The old jokes are, if not the best, than certainly the most comforting. However, even the most cursory glance at the Harvard student body would tip off the casual observer that most undergraduates are unable to grasp that simple premise. In spite of the furor over falling numbers at last week’s Phillips Brooks House Association First-Year Day of Service—where 25 students participated, compared to more than 300 eager volunteers the previous year—the problem at Harvard remains the student body’s over-commitment...
After blistering criticism in the media, Harvard released a clarifying fact sheet in July telling students accepted under early decision at other schools that they had to withdraw all other applications. The furor died down, and the conversation about how to end early decision resumed with little reference to Harvard’s now-dead idea that could have dealt the fatal blow...
...this stands in stark contrast to the furor generated in the last few weeks by those who seek to provide for an unbiased, respectful debate on the conflict in the Middle East. Two weeks ago, University President Lawrence H. Summers’ comments about acts that are “anti-Semitic in their effect if not in their intent” were met by some with the kind of outrage that might greet a Supreme Court which voted to nullify the First Amendment...
...should have respectfully listened to his words—even if they disagreed—launched a highly organized, highly personal attack against him. His speech, once entitled “American Jihad,” in the end proved innocuous even to the most rabid skeptics. But the furor showed how the political demands of America’s war obfuscate clear thinking about that clear morning last September...
...stuffed animal collection, his bright ties, his see-through "crystal office"?grabs headlines, yet he is only one of a group of influential governors challenging the center. Best known is Shintaro Ishihara, governor of Tokyo, notorious for his blunt speech and strident nationalism. Just last week, Ishihara sparked a furor about Japan's hapless banking system by threatening to pull the city's deposits from troubled Mizuho Holdings...