Word: touchings
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...subdued American Legion audience in Washington. A paragraph condemning the mosque attack was added, but the President's address was both stale and fantastic. The news from the Middle East-Iran, Iraq, Palestine-has been nonstop awful, and Bush is beginning to sound as airy and out of touch as Woodrow Wilson must have in 1919, when that President tried to sell the futile dream of a League of Nations...
Cummings closed with an appeal to students to use their talents to touch others, which received resounding applause. Markus R.T. Kolic ’09 said “it was stunning, the man is a passionate and inspiring leader...
...formal sense, he participated in the curriculum, teaching a freshman seminar and co-teaching a large lecture course. But this teaching role just begins to touch the core reasons that students supported Summers: he was passionately interested in their ideas and their experiences. He didn’t listen politely and then move on to the next student in line. Instead, he argued with students about every conceivable topic, from curricular reform to the ethics of stem cell research to the war in Iraq. Summers showed up at undergraduate events, and he meaningfully talked with students. He asked tough questions...
...says that Reeves can neglect detail at times.“He likes to live well and is sloppy with bookkeeping,” Cyr said. “Ken would have assumed that someone would have done that for him...he’s kind of out of touch. But I don’t think he ever does anything malevolent.”Winters says that signs of Reeves’ propensity to miss important details have already surfaced this term.Earlier this month, councillors discovered that Reeves had delegated committee chairmanships without following official Council rules.Winters calls this...
Harvard President Lawrence Summers, who announced his resignation Tuesday after a tumultuous five years in office, was known for his rough touch. He saw it as his job to prod a potentially complacent institution. But his tenure was marked by often bitter departures of some of the university?s highest-profile minds, from Cornel West in 2002 to the recent resignation of William Kirby, the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The monthly meetings between Summers and Harvard faculty were never love-ins, but sources tell Time.com that the most recent meeting, on February 7th, turned into...