Word: turmoils
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Department sources say hiring new supervisors from among the guards in a deeply divided unit would have created even more turmoil. Vallier says that such a move, in a guard service that has lost money in recent years, doesn't make economic sense...
...Sources close to the deliberations told the Oslo paper that former Norwegian government minister Kaare Kristiansen, one of five Peace Prize Committee members and a longtime Israel supporter, has vowed to step down in protest because he still considers Arafat a terrorist. TIME Copenhagen reporter Julian Isherwood says the turmoil has prompted the committee to schedule an emergency meeting as soon as tomorrow to work out a compromise...
...tempting to dismiss all this turmoil as academic. One who decidedly does not is Harold Bloom, 64, the occupant of endowed chairs at both Yale and New York University, the author of 20 critical works and the editor of hundreds more, and a Vesuvian source of erudition and opinions. Bloom believes, among many other things, that a body of great literature of imperishable value exists, recognizable solely by its intrinsic aesthetic merits; further, that those who try to use or subvert the great works for extraliterary purposes, i.e., anything smacking of social engineering, are barbarians; and further still, that these...
...point in April, three of the University's top seven positions were unfilled. The Boston Globe and alumni from across the country were predicting that the turmoil and turnover could hurt Harvard's ambitious $2.1-billion capital campaign...
Richard Cole '95 resigned during last spring's turmoil. But now he is running for a fourth term in the hope that the council can move beyond its recent past...