Word: spat
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...Even more worrying is the stain it has left on the entire Italian economy. Murdoch, for one, told an investors' meeting that he's lost interest in any potential share swap with Telecom, reportedly frustrated by government meddling. Tronchetti Provera's resignation as Telecom chairman, initially blamed on the spat with Prodi, is more likely just a case of finding a good time to bail. His five years at the helm of the fifth largest European telecom company were disappointing, and the recent lopping off of the mobile unit was a complete U-turn after it had been fused with...
...chaired by Princeton philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah, a former Harvard professor who has been working towards its proposal since fall 2005. Also on the committee was Princeton religion professor Cornel R. West ’74, who taught at Harvard for eight years but left in 2002 following a spat with then-University President Lawrence H. Summers.The committee suggested a plan to offer an African American studies major within five years. For the past 37 years, Princeton has offered students the option of an African American studies certificate—not a full major. Appiah said the committee is looking...
...year to Feb. 25, 2007 - began life as a purely local exhibition at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum but soon blossomed into an international event. Since 2000, it has been jointly curated by two curators - one a Taiwan national, the other from overseas. This has led to the occasional spat, with the Taiwan curator at the 2005 event having what one official diplomatically described as "communication problems" with her Belgian curating partner. This year, Taipei will try the pairing of American curator Dan Cameron and artist-critic Junjieh Wang. Chinese video artist Cao Fei, who will produce a new work...
...Pakistan may have won points with the U.S. for its steadfastness in the Rauf case. British authorities had wanted to wait for the alleged plotters to do a dry run of their mission before striking. Washington vigorously disagreed, and while Pakistan was officially neutral in the spat, an Islamabad official points out, "The last thing we want is for something to happen and everyone says it's linked to Pakistan." According to one source, the U.S. threatened to take Rauf with Pakistan's help even if London didn't move. Washington won, the British swooped down on their suspects...
Summers announced he would step down in February after a bitter year-long spat with the Faculty of Arts and Science that ended when Summers lost the support of key members of the University’s highest governing board, the Harvard Corporation. His affair with the Faculty was touched off by the president’s infamous January 2005 remarks on women in science, which thrust Harvard squarely into the international spotlight and brought the embattled leader’s every move under intense scrutiny...