Word: paule
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...jumped ship after the first eight months. But more daring editorial choices, like December's cover subject of Dov Charney, the controversial CEO of American Apparel, came across as ill-timed and wrong-footed. "[Newhouse's] best editors in chief all have one thing in common," wrote former staffer Paul Smalera, on the Portfolio-obsessed website Gawker.com, "which is they know how to channel and predict the predilections of their readers and turn at least a couple issues a year into can't-miss propositions. Lipman did not have this particular talent...
...conduct research on a broad range of pressing societal issues and we draw on our members across all the disciplines to participate in that research program,” said Paul Karoff, a spokesperson for AAAS...
...According to a retired operative, some at Langley "are convinced that [Obama] has thrown out the baby along with the waterboard." More generally, some veterans say that the rules of the war on terrorism in the Obama era are no longer clear. "It's very much in flux," says Paul Pillar, a former top agency official who now teaches at Georgetown University. "So much is unresolved - like the various habeas cases involving Gitmo detainees. There are lots of shoes yet to drop...
...like Harvard for a liberal education, has been badly shortchanged. While he will have spent $3,000 on books for his classes, he will not have bought a single work of William Shakespeare or Henry James. He will be wholly unfamiliar with John Stuart Mill or Bertrand Russell. Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus might as well be Plato or Aristotle—that is to say, Greek. This newspaper reported last Thursday that Dean of Undergraduate Education Jay Harris informed an ad hoc committee deliberating the addition of a Great Books element to the new Program for General Education...
...very happy American tourists. I asked them if they had heard of the flu advisory. Julie was celebrating her graduation in advance, traveling on tickets that she bought on sale on the internet and could not return. But she wasn't complaining or afraid. "I am from Minneapolis-St. Paul, do you have any idea of the weather today? We arrived yesterday and this is great! Margaritas are fun and cheap. Nobody told us of any advisory. It must not be bad because my Mom has not tried to call me." Andy, 18, is also from St Paul...