Word: haphazard
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What these examples show is a University leadership that refuses to listen to the criticisms or the suggestions of other members of the Harvard community. Instead, our leaders have become a little clique stumbling their way to haphazard solutions to problems that concern all of us. Rather than listen to the advice of students, faculty, alumni and staff, these leaders make unilateral decisions that harm the University, thereby keeping from the overall goal we all share--the advancement of knowledge...
...Yaghobzadeh's shot of two men bearing the victim of heavy shelling. For photographers working in the rubble of failed diplomacy, the most decent impulse is to use the camera as a branding iron -- the right pictures are blunt, scorching and indelible. That they can also look raw and haphazard is merely proof that style can echo the facts. The coherent images of classic photojournalism carry an implied message, namely that life is cogent even in the midst of catastrophe; that while events may be terrible, the human dilemma holds a familiar shape. The atrocities of Lebanon can shake that...
What these examples show is a University leadership that refuses to listen to the criticisms or the suggestions of other members of the Harvard community. Instead, our leaders have become a little clique stumbling their way to haphazard solutions to problems that concern all of us. Rather than listen to the advice of students, faculty, alumni and staff, these leaders make unilateral decisions that harm the University, thereby keeping from the overall goal we all share--the advancement of knowledge...
While students complained earlier this year about the random, almost haphazard, manner in which tickets were assigned to freshmen, some critics have charged that the selection method for the 350th places too much emphasis on wealthy alumni and their links to the Harvard College Fund, the University's main fundraising organ. Stephenson, the man who is in charge of planning the whole 350th celebration, also served as one of the College Fund's top rainmakers before taking over his current post...
Stockman tells some appalling tales about the haphazard way the actual Reagan economic program of 1981 was shaped. On one occasion, he and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger casually agreed to split the difference between various military-spending proposals and came up with a figure of 7% real growth in the Pentagon budget. Stockman paid little attention to the base figure on which the Pentagon proposed to calculate that 7%. When he saw the actual numbers pointing to military spending of $1.46 trillion over the next five years, Stockman writes, he "nearly had a heart attack." Later the OMB boss...