Word: tepidity
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...spring 2006 semester. Just one week after the announcement, Kirby resigns under pressure from Summers, setting off a wave of Faculty attacks on Summers that lead to Summers’ resignation in February. Summers’ and Kirby’s resignations, combined with tepid support for the November 2005 report, result in little progress being made on general education during the spring...
...reason may be the tepid response from other rivals, now trickling out over the op-ed pages of national newspapers. Following Stanford Provost John Etchemendy's defiant stance in the New York Times last week, UPenn President Amy Gutmann took to the Washington Post on Sunday with a similar defense of early admissions. (The Daily Pennsylvanian notes the latter today...
...glee as he intones the blessings.Speaking of Jews, highlight number two was a huge surprise. The Silver Jews is a band that’s been around since the early ’90s, but had never toured until last year. Initial reviews of their live shows had been tepid, at best, so we all had our doubts.Jesus Christ, were we wrong. Frontman David Berman is, first and foremost, a poet, and songs like “Dallas” and “Trains Across the Sea” were heart-wrenching and earnest to the point of goosebumps.Even...
...watchdog group's beef with Interior is tepid compared with the blast delivered a day earlier by the department's own inspector general, Earl Devaney. In scorching testimony before a House Government Reform subcommittee the no-nonsense Devaney charged that during his seven years as Interior's IG his revelations of misdeeds and foul-ups have been routinely "disregarded by the department." Numerous IG reports on regulations circumvented, procurement irregularities, project failures and bureaucrats being awarded bonuses despite their failures have been met with "vehement challenges" by Interior officials "to the quality of our audits, evaluations and investigations," he told...
...Faculty voted last spring to push back the concentration choice deadline to sophomore year and to allow undergraduates to declare secondary fields, similar to minors. Previous General Education proposals, however, have been sent back to the drawing board after meeting tepid receptions from the Faculty...