Word: hysterias
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...quite "Who lost China?" - the mantra of Joe McCarthy's witch-hunt that began a purge of the State Department - but Newt Gingrich's attack on Foggy Bottom certainly matches McCarthy for hysteria. Indeed, if the (dare we say "disgraced"?) former Speaker of the House is to be believed, President Bush's foreign policy is being systematically sabotaged by a determined group of fanatics in the very department charged with carrying it out. The evidence? Quite simply that most of the world opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq; that no UN Security Council resolution could be garnered to authorize...
Nevertheless, it is still too soon to run out to buy more plastic sheeting and duct tape. The disease that has been deemed an epidemic by some news sources has received much more hype than it deserves. In a replay of the 2001 anthrax hysteria, the latest infectious beastie to hit America has brought with it far more fear than fevers and more hand-wringing than hacking coughs...
...Harvard Schmarvard, a witty new volume on college admissions by Washington Post education reporter Jay Mathews ’67, the author attempts to head off college bound students and parents’ college admissions hysteria...
...better to attempt to end the hysteria than an actual Harvard graduate? In addition to graduating from Harvard College, Mathews attended the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for two years in pursuit of a degree in East Asian studies...
...Harvard Schmarvard, he attributes the greatest hysteria to private schools like Sidwell Friends in Washington, D.C., but he also includes top public high schools like Mamaroneck High in New York’s Westchester County in his analysis of the admissions craze...