Word: mannered
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Women aren't the only group that has been alienated by Summers' rough-and-tumble manner. Soon after leaving his post as President Bill Clinton's Treasury Secretary and returning to the Cambridge campus where he earned his Ph.D. and taught economics in the 1980s, Summers questioned African-American studies professor Cornel West's scholarship and teaching, causing West to leave for Princeton and upsetting many in Harvard's African-American community. In a controversy in 2002, Muslims on campus said they were offended when Summers labeled as "anti-Semitic in their effect if not in their intent" the efforts...
...Pell Grant program currently operates with a $4.3 billion deficit due to an increase in demand for the grants, and according to a White House fact sheet, “the current student loan programs do not make loans available to students in a cost-effective manner,” and benefits are often provided too much to those not attending school and not enough to those students enrolled...
PharmaCare officials issued a statement Friday saying that it “protects Personal Health Information (PHI) in a diligent manner that is consistently in compliance with all regulations...
...plan impossible to master; Voltaire called it "a labyrinth without a thread." Likewise, while our Constitution opens with a stirring preamble, "We the people ...," it quickly settles into a tedious recitation of items, articles and sections, bulging in their seeming infinity like Harpo Marx's coat pockets, detailing all manner of governmental powers and functions--related to everything from dockyards to coinage. In fairness, how could anyone reasonably expect such a document to compete, in our romantic imagination, with another resounding with trumpet fanfares extolling life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Just as American conversations and American journalism will...
...This case is especially important for the future of computer security,” Tena said. “If they don’t allow people like me to conduct research in this manner, hackers will find a way to find the same things I am finding but actually...