Word: imbroglio
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...majors in a school were more talented than Albert Einstein, if all Humanities majors were brighter than Aristotle, if all Social scientists dwarfed Adam Smith, it would still be completely inappropriate to allow more than 25 percent or so to graduate with honors. Of course, to untangle the honors imbroglio Harvard could always just impose strict quotas on the numbers of seniors each year who can graduate with honors, but that is trimming the branches of the weed rather than cutting out its roots. Instead, it seems much more effective (not to mention more fair and even-handed) to simply...
...circumstances that drew these and many other cartoonists to Hellman's aid may strike anyone outside the comix community as surprisingly weird and petty. Hellman has been sued for libel by another cartoonist, Ted Rall, because of a prank played on him by Hellman. The imbroglio began when Rall, author of the weekly syndicated strip "Search and Destroy" and an occasional contributor to TIME magazine, wrote a cover story for the August 3, 1999 "Village Voice," headlined "The King of Comix." It presented Art Spiegelman, author of the Pulitzer-winning "Maus," as a kind of New York cartooning Nero - made...
...Middle East imbroglio has left many African nations silently seething over the extent to which their own concerns are being eclipsed by the Arab bloc sticking to its guns over the language condemning Israel. Although many African governments sympathize with the plight of the Palestinians, they're uncomfortable with the Arab bloc's apparent willingness to scuttle the whole conference by insisting that the harshest possible language on Israel remain in the final document - because the conference declaration must be adopted by consensus, the impasse over Israel and Zionism threatens to derail the entire enterprise. That prompted the Africans...
Proclaiming itself committed to regional perspective in matters Middle Eastern was once a coded way for the Bush administration to distance itself from President Clinton's fruitless micromanagement of Israeli-Palestinian affairs. But that same regional perspective may be dragging President Bush a lot deeper into the Israeli-Palestinian imbroglio than he'd care...
...efforts by Mas Santos and other younger leaders to broker a compromise, the planned protests ultimately spooked the Grammy organizers into baling out. The decision, which cost Miami's tourist industry some $35 million in lost revenues, was the worst possible outcome for the CANF. Not only had the imbroglio forced a damaging political split in the organization, the ultimate decision to withdraw the event had communicated exactly the type of message Mas Santos had been at pains to avoid...