Word: tactlessness
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Former University President Lawrence H. Summers’s critics, it seems, should be happily sated: Faust appears to be everything Summers was not. In the stead of a bold albeit tactless social scientist and a former cabinet secretary, Harvard has ensconced a career academic and mid-level administrator culled from the women’s studies henhouse. Where Summers elicited controversy, Faust brings consensus. Summers’ chauvinistic disregard for the humanities will be replaced by the interdisciplinary tolerance of Faust, who “knows people in just about every department on campus...
...that the Democratic Party has control of Congress, its first step should be to get its own house in order and prevent tactless would-be politicians like Lamont from making anymore wasteful political grabs in the future. The Democratic leadership had ample opportunities to subdue the Lamont campaign and assert its support for Lieberman during and after the primary, yet it balked each time. Now, the leadership needs to assess the role it wants fringe activists to play in its party politics and recognize that however contentious the Iraq war may currently be, the Democrats cannot risk becoming...
...Nguyen, a Vietnamese immigrant running against Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Calif., in the Nov. 7 election. Nguyen at first blamed a rogue but unidentified staffer who, he said, had been dismissed. Later, he offered to re-hire the staffer, saying the letter was proper. Wrong. Whoever wrote that tactless missive is clueless about the law; while it's true that illegal immigrants can't vote, legal immigrants can vote if they've become naturalized citizens...
...fiery phrasing naturally makes Moulitsas an inviting target for the right. Among bloggers, he is probably most famous for his tactless response to the April 2004 video images of the corpses of American military contractors being dragged through the streets of Fallujah, about which he wrote, "I feel nothing... Screw them." While conservatives - and many liberals - criticized Moulitsas's intemperance, the controversy did nothing to slow the site's skyrocketing readership. Indeed, the incident gave him his trademark...
...mostly issues slaps on the wrist to Harvard freshmen caught drinking alcohol in the Yard, the Ad Board is actually charged with deliberating on almost all of the cases of student misconduct. However, it seems extraordinarily inconsistent that the same Board should deliberate on a case of a tactless but well-meaning beer-guzzling freshman and on a dishonest student charged with fabricating lab results. Simple discipline for relatively minor infractions must be separated from larger moral issues on campus. Creating an Honor Council (separate from the Ad Board) to uphold an official honor code is the only...