Word: ire
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...juggling. He calls them hippies and hacks. "Both can coexist, I think, very easily," says Kim Laird, an IJA board member. "The WJF right now is the new kid on the block, and some people feel their territory's being invaded." Garfield too is a little befuddled by the ire, though he doesn't seem to mind the attention. "It's just juggling. It's surprising to me that people get so mad about...
...something interesting and exciting? But if any Pope can do it, he can." For his part, Zapatero seems bound to look for new ways to make his case for radical social change. Though some have called for a new liberal euthanasia law, which would again raise the church's ire, the government has found that some of the changes it seeks surprisingly overlap with the church's interests - like a proposal made two weeks ago that would extend maternity leave for working mothers. But Anglo-Spanish writer Tom Burns Marañon, a liberal Catholic, anticipates an intellectual slugfest...
...e-mail.In another departure from the higher ed norm, Summers hired his own press secretary upon assuming the presidency.Lucie McNeil, the first person to hold the title, came to Harvard in late 2002 after working as a senior press officer for Tony Blair. Ever since, the position has drawn the ire of some faculty members, who see it as unnecessarily political. “The president of Harvard does not need a spokesman,” Gordon, the history chair, says.The manpower expansion of the public relations operation may be less significant than some observers contend, however. According to Joe Wrinn...
...would not be an overstatement to say that without free speech and an unfettered exchange of ideas, a true University could not exist. All ideas, no matter how unpleasant to some, deserve to be voiced and judged on their merits. This year, several instances of curtailed speech raised our ire. Last November, DePaul University professor Norman G. Finkelstein’s speech at Harvard Law School was frequently interrupted by a vocal minority of protesters, who shouted taunts and attempted to drown out his words. A similarly worrying episode occurred in the spring, when some students tore pro-life posters...
...1960s and 1970s may be the only decades in human history—at Harvard, anyway—where ugly buildings were somehow desirable. All over campus, starkly geometric concrete slabs were erected like tombstones, housing students and offices, and raising the ire of those who prefer serene beauty to hideousness for diversity’s sake. We are not worried that the University will repeat the same mistakes, but after the presentation of sketches for Allston’s first new building—a science complex—students cannot help but wonder if the University will make...