Word: prods
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...have sought for the last five years to prod and challenge the University to reach for the most ambitious goals in creative ways," he wrote. "As I leave the presidency, my greatest hope is that the University will build on the important elements of renewal that we have begun over the last several years...
Harvard President Lawrence Summers, who announced his resignation Tuesday after a tumultuous five years in office, was known for his rough touch. He saw it as his job to prod a potentially complacent institution. But his tenure was marked by often bitter departures of some of the university?s highest-profile minds, from Cornel West in 2002 to the recent resignation of William Kirby, the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The monthly meetings between Summers and Harvard faculty were never love-ins, but sources tell Time.com that the most recent meeting, on February 7th, turned into...
...have declined to be identified for security reasons. The prosecution is seeking to prove that Saddam and his co-defendants ordered the killing of 143 townspeople, mainly Shi'ites, in retaliation for a failed assassination attempt on the former President in 1982. In court, the prosecutors, like prosecutors anywhere, prod witnesses to testify against the defendants...
...dialogue is time-filling conversation you might hear anywhere (but in a Hollywood movie). The film doesn't judge or prod its characters, just watches the long fuse of the plot dwindle, then explode. The "actors" bring an authenticity to this strip-mall, strip-mined area. Ashley is a student, Wilkins a beauty-salon stylist, and Doebereiner the manager of the Parkersburg, W.Va., Kentucky Fried Chicken. All are good, but Doebereiner's a real find. With eyes as blue as those her Martha presses into plastic doll faces, she brings a fresh look to a decent person who's addicted...
...searching for keys to her murder. Meirelles expands the scope of the John Le Carr? source novel out of the European compound and into Kenyan villages and plains. This Brazilian director, who also found a place on the all-TIME 100 movies (City of God), likes to probe and prod a subject from a dozen oblique angles. The result is a First World story seen through the acute eyes of a Third World auteur--a film of nuance and power, flawlessly acted and an adventure to watch, with the aftertaste of a placebo laced with cyanide...