Word: remarkable
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...country is important and that our country is best served when great universities like Harvard stand with those who defend the freedom that makes all our contributions possible," Summers said today through his spokesman. "I look forward to the day when it is common and doesn't draw remark when an Ivy League president attends an ROTC commissioning ceremony...
...Mansfield ’53 offered a comment that was as notable for its arrogance as it was for its disregard for undergraduate education: “Course evaluations introduce the rule of the less wise over the more wise, of students over professors.” This remark was particularly stunning in light of Mansfield’s comments nearly a year earlier in response to surveys indicating students’ dissatisfaction with the quality of their academic experience: “Nobody can say that Harvard students are complacent. I think their intelligence makes them critical...
...Busby's chances may have been hurt last weekend when she made comments to a predominently Hispanic audience that voters didn't need identity papers to vote. Republicans jumped on her remark, saying it indicated that she wanted illegals to vote, a charge Busby denies. But immigration remains a huge issue in this border region. Bilbray has aligned himself with House conservatives who are opposing the President's immigration reform plan, with its path to citizenship and guest worker program. In fact, Bilbray's adamant opposition to the bill led Sen. John McCain, one of the President's champions...
...attended basketball camp there from middle school through my freshman year of high school. Before I knew the words to my high school alma mater, I knew Fordham’s fight song by heart.When my high school guidance counselor discussed the choice with me, he made a remark that has stuck with me ever since. He said that Fordham would always be a part of me and, laughing, said, “You’ll always be a Cram”—not fully Harvard Crimson, and not fully a Fordham Ram. I remember this remark...
...liberal magazine while at Harvard). What ensued was a “physical confrontation” just short of a riot, in which the embattled McNamara fled in his car through angry crowds on his way out of Cambridge. It was an event that prompted one Crimson reader to remark, in a letter to the editor, that “it seems apparent that due to the temperamental orientation of many of the opponents of the war, it is impossible to have any meaningful dialogue in a context which involves a non-select audience...