Word: suspicion
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...Paulin, a poet who was scheduled to give a reading at Harvard, had made anti-Semitic remarks to an Egyptian newspaper. Yet as word spread of Paulin’s views and a controversy ensued, New herself, a 44 year-old tenured American literature scholar, became the target of suspicion from both colleagues and outsiders. Then again, that can happen when the president of Harvard calls you his girlfriend...
...nervous about all this,” says Kiely, “nervous that she might tell him what goes on in our meetings.” At the full department meeting called to decide what to do about Paulin, according to a senior professor who was present, the suspicion boiled over. Reid Professor of English Philip J. Fisher asked her whether Summers, who had officially told the department it should do as it wished, had anything to do with her opposition. “If there was an uncomfortable moment in the meeting,” the professor recalls...
...expect to act as counsellors at summer camps, or to play baseball under conditions where there may be a suspicion that some of the players are receiving money or an equivalent form of remuneration should first consult the chairman of the Athletic Committee, Professor R. B. Merriman, or the Graduate Treasurer, F. W. Moore...
...aware when he posted the treatise that the porn site he had visited had been busted. The Landslide trial in August 2001 was well publicized. Attorney General John Ashcroft himself announced it to the press. Townshend's Web account could be a self-serving effort to pre-empt suspicion. It could also turn out that his motives are more mixed than even he knows. If he was abused as a child, could he separate his revulsion at child pornography from his curiosity about it? Does Townshend saying "I have never downloaded" sound too much like Bill Clinton saying he never...
...proposal and offered to postpone it. In a drastic departure from standard procedure in this rigidly hierarchical nation, the governor invited the people of Borobudur to draw up their own plan. Immediately after General Mardiyanto called retreat, the opposition seemed giddy, almost stunned by its victory. But suspicion soon crept in that this might be a ruse. One young firebrand told me, "Now we are entering the world of games." In the past, Indonesian government officials have been shameless about making cheery promises to gloss over problems and quell criticism, only to break them when the opportunity to make money...