Word: ouster
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...country’s premier opinion pages made the same contention, attributing Summers’ ouster to the political correctness of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The Wall Street Journal focused on Summers’ encounter with Cornel West, his support of the military, and his comments on the “intrinsic aptitude” of women in science as the causes of Faculty discontent. The Journal portrayed the Faculty as “largely left-wing” with “about as much intellectual diversity as the Pyongyang parliament.” Arguing from...
This is a side of Afghanistan that George W. Bush didn't see last week. Visiting the country for the first time, Bush spent five hours in the capital, Kabul, and hailed Afghanistan's progress since the ouster of the Taliban more than four years ago. The country has made strides: it has an elected government, newly paved roads, more children in school, the appearance of a few shopping centers in Kabul. But the improvements in the lives of many Afghans are tempered by the country's persistent insecurity, which is fueled by a rampant drug trade and a Taliban...
...There is in my view no correlation, no interplay, between anti-Semitism and Summers’ ouster,” Dershowitz said yesterday. “But I think there is some interplay between anti-Zionism and Summers’ ouster...
...followed your coverage of Lawrence Summers’ tenure as president (“Harvard’s Loss,” editorial, Feb. 22). Like many, I feel that his ouster reveals a disturbing set of dynamics within Harvard...
From my perspective as an alumnus, the goings on at Harvard (“Faculty Uproar Led to Ouster,” news, Feb. 22) comes down to this question: is the University to be run for the benefit of students or faculty? President Lawrence Summers thinks it should be run for the benefit of students, that is, that they should get a sound education to prepare them for productive and fulfilled lives. A majority of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and apparently the Corporation think the university should be run for the benefit of the faculty, that...