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...ruthless manager, and he admitted during the hearing that in a popularity contest, "I sure as hell wouldn't win one at CIA." Gates's vigorous rebuttal saved his nomination, although 31 Democrats voted against him on the floor - an unprecedented number for a CIA nominee. But the Gates furor soon died down, and during his three years as CIA director he was widely praised inside and out of the agency for being an effective and fair manager. "I never saw him or anyone around him trying to cook the intelligence on Iraq," says Judith Yaphe, who served under Gates...
...response to the last question, Petersen replied emphatically to a question about the recent Collegeboxes furor, in which the company lost students’ belongings. He demanded that Harvard Student Agencies "sever ties" with Collegeboxes...
Regardless, the furor shows that the wounds and the battles of the Civil Rights movement are still with us. As we continue to fight racism, let’s hope that one day the n-word will lose all of its power. Let’s hope that one day, calling someone a “nigger” will be about as pointless and silly as is calling someone a “commie” today...
...tradition and progressive discourse cited in Europe's headscarf debate lies the mean, provincial "not in our country, you don't" attitude - even when many of the women at whom it's addressed to were born and raised in "our country". When all is said and done, the headscarf furor reflects a broader sentiment wafting across: it's fine to be Muslim, just don't remind us about it by the way you dress...
...households; about 4.4 million families actually had to reduce or skip meals altogether because they ran out of money to buy food. They used to be called "food insecure with hunger." Now they are described as experiencing "very low food security." The shift in terminology, which inspired such a furor, came about as bureaucratic translations so often do: slowly, earnestly, and all but blindly when it came to the larger meaning. "It seems that 'hungry' means different things to different people," explains Mark Nord, one of the principal authors of the USDA report. Some anti-hunger activists said that...