Word: outspoken
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...Vatican initiated probably the first joint statement by a Catholic pope and an Irish pop star. It could have also been Jeffrey D. Sachs '76, Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade and Director of Harvard's Center for International Development, who is one of the most outspoken representatives of the economics profession and an avid supporter of the global debt relief program. Or it might have been Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), who reportedly wept when talking to Bono about the merits of debt relief...
Many felt that Harvard needed a strong, outspoken leader, someone qualified, flexible, innovative and maybe even brash--someone who represented the change universities were undergoing. The Crimson reported that the search committee's model for the new president was Kingman Brewster, 51, then president of Yale. Once a professor at Harvard Law School, Brewster was everything a president needed to be: charming, outspoken, diplomatic and committed to academics...
...Henderson is trying to shake up the system. Last month word leaked that he and Fred Smith, founder and CEO of Federal Express, were putting the finishing touches on a broad alliance--a striking move, since Smith has long been an outspoken critic of the USPS Although details are still sketchy, the deal would reportedly give the government carrier access to the air network of the company, which is based in Memphis, Tenn. In return, the blue-uniformed postal workers would pick FedEx packages up from your door and deliver them right to your door. In effect, that would hand...
...hurt his wife. But if he took nandrolone intentionally, he sure wasn't thinking about what might happen to her, to him, to their bank account. And if he took the drug, did his wife know? Could America's golden girl be a hypocrite? Jones has long been outspoken against drug use in her sport...
...Indeed, Wolfensohn had become an outspoken critic of IMF policy after he judged that the international lender had actually exacerbated the economic crisis in countries such as Indonesia two years ago by insisting on harsh austerity measures as a condition for a financial bailout - which made the poorest and most vulnerable members of society pay the price for the errors of that nation's notoriously corrupt elite. Wolfensohn on Tuesday even saluted the demonstrators. "I believe deeply that many of them are asking legitimate questions, and I embrace the commitment of a new generation to fight poverty," said Wolfensohn...