Word: spat
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During the furor over the Summers-West spat, Gates, along with other top scholars in the department, was reported to be disappointed that Summers failed to begin his presidency with a strong statement in support of the department and of diversity in the larger University community...
...discussed. However, the small glasses of 10-cent beer lacked distinction. One night, after much carousing, a student, at least I suppose it was a student from somewhere, shouted that the beer was undrinkable and Cronin came over to see what the matter was. He tasted the beer, spat it out and picked up the student and threw him out the door, much to the amusement of all in the beer hall...
...sense, the spat over who got what version of which memo epitomizes Washington at its worst. The capital at its best would appreciate that the most important question isn't what Bush (or anyone else) knew before Sept. 11; it is what the Administration and Congress have and have not done to fix a broken system. But November and the midterm elections, you may have noticed, are only six months away. Washington is reverting to form...
When West became involved in a very public spat with University President Lawrence H. Summers, race became the sordid subtext to the whole disgraceful affair. West was upset at Summers’ alleged accusations that West needed to spend more time on serious scholarship. Shortly after West announced he was leaving for Princeton, he infamously called Summers “in one sense…the Ariel Sharon of American higher education,” specifically claiming that Summers “acts like a bull in a china shop.” But in retrospect, it appears that...
...professors said they felt the spat with West should lead Summers to change his ways...