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...direction of the skid, waiting for the tires to regain traction, then turning the wheel back in the direction you want to travel. At least that's the concept. After the fifth attempt, my goal is simply to hold down my breakfast and get Mazzacane, normally a mild-mannered guy, to quit yelling...
Ouch. Corporation members don’t usually damn departing presidents with faint praise. But Daniel was hardly alone in his opinion. Rudenstine had become widely seen, in the words of one critic, as “the incredible shrinking college president,” a man whose mild presence had diminished the stature of the Harvard presidency. Larry Summers, his proponents insisted, would restore the role of university president to its pre-Rudenstine stature...
...would think out loud a lot more than people in the Bush administration do,” says Sanger. “I found it very refreshing. You get used to his style, which isn’t always mild. But I would always prefer a forceful advocacy of a view as long as it was backed up by facts than the approach that you hear a lot in Washington today...
...Request something mild, smooth and light-colored, such as a Davidoff or an Ashton, to start...
...mild embarrassment brought upon Harvard by University President Lawrence H. Summers’ apolitical remarks regarding women in the sciences has just been trumped. We turn to Tuesday’s Faculty meeting in its place. Slighting norms of civility, certain opportunistic members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have decided to rile the mob and convene the kangaroo court to put Summers—already downtrodden from his unjust beating by the media over the past month—on the hot seat...