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...when it comes to students going about their own business, there’s stuff we regret. In November, for example, a passed-over Crimson staffer sent to his peers a 1,200-word resignation e-mail so livid we ran it under the headline “Unpromoted Crimson Editor Burns Bridges, Collects Ashes, Re-Burns Them; Then Packs Ash Ashes Into Payload Of Nuclear Warhead And Hurls Into Sun.” Did we serve readers by reminding them that behind this august broadsheet is a staff just as fallible as any? Absolutely. But we also...
...network head Kevin Reilly has lost his job to The Office producer Ben Silverman. Reilly defenders are livid. "He gave his right arm to save 30 Rock and Friday Night Lights," TV blog GIVE ME MY REMOTE wails, raising the questions, Did he also give his job? And what happens to those beloved, low-rated shows now? SCORE...
This movement against graft faces its biggest test in the BAE Systems case. Anticorruption advocates are livid. "There are great concerns around the world about this decision to stop the investigation. It's just what we tell everyone not to do," says Huguette Labelle, chancellor of the University of Ottawa , who chairs the board of Transparency International, an anticorruption pressure group. She points to a glaring discrepancy in the behavior of the government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who spearheaded the eiti and has made good governance a cornerstone of his African aid policy. "It's difficult to understand...
...Washington's confrontational rhetoric was meant only to intimidate. Former president Mohammad Khatami, viewed here as a valuable interlocutor in dealing with the United States, attended a session with Senator Bob Kerrey at the World Economic Summit in Davos - under normal circumstances such a meeting would leave radicals here livid...
...Many in India are livid that the bill suggests - suggests, mind you, rather than demands - that should India carry out another nuclear test, the U.S. and other countries should cease fuel supplies. They're also hostile to the bill's provision for an annual "assessment" by the U.S. of how the program is working, and outraged that the bill includes a non-binding requirement that India support the U.S. position in relation to its efforts to limit Iran's nuclear program because of suspicion that Tehran is trying to attain strategic nuclear capability...