Word: scared
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Harvard professors don’t scare easily. Though protected by life tenure and the prestige of an elite university, they are occasionally called to act at great risk to their sense of comfort. And rarely have they shown more courage, more disregard for personal convenience in the face of mortal danger, than in proposing a no-confidence motion in University President Lawrence H. Summers, to be voted on in an emergency meeting next week...
...corporations are seldom held accountable. When they are, the most fearsome penalty the government can come up with amounts to no more than back pay and a sign posted by the company promising not to repeat the violations. The Ad Board couldn’t even scare a Harvard student with that. What’s more, the penalty comes after years of court procedures, leaving the union dead in the water by the time the case is resolved...
Pope John Paul II appears to be recovering after being hospitalized last week with a respiratory infection, the result of a bout with the flu. But his latest health scare has revived a heavy question hovering over St. Peter's Square: Who is really running the show...
Does aging in the music industry scare you? In my 30s it did. If you can hang around till you're 41 and not frighten people when you walk in the room...
...shipwreck. It's over-the-top stuff, but so is the Book of Revelation itself, and while the dialogue is campy and portentous ("All the signs and symbols set forth in the Bible are currently in place for the end of days!"), it delivers a good old New Testament scare...