Word: underwhelmingness
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The 1969 Strike may have had the support of a multi-ethnic constituency at Harvard, but many of the affirmative voters were motivated by the other issues in question, particularly the elimination of the ROTC program in order to demonstrate the University’s opposition to the Vietnam War...
In addition to the considerable political risk in partnering with a charter member of the "axis of evil," there's the North's underwhelming track record when it comes to development schemes. Casting about for new investors after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the D.P.R.K. in the 1990s started...
Many fault Gross’ occasionally lackluster leadership for the sluggishness of the Harvard College Curricular Review and for the underwhelming new General Education curriculum that it produced. But his tenure nevertheless produced a stunning renaissance in undergraduate advising, including the first comprehensive, fully-funded peer advising program in the...
When I touched down aboard Air Force One with President Bush Tuesday for a 90-minute refueling stop en route from Iraq to Australia, Diego Garcia's esthetic impact was underwhelming: Think early-'70s industrial park for the architecture, and public elementary school for the interior design. But as a...
Indeed, thorny organizational issues were evident. Despite the conference's claims of national unity, attendees were overwhelmingly Sunni and mostly secular. A few smaller groups like Al Qaeda in Iraq - representing, said several delegates, a hated "foreign presence" - were not included. (Delegates present insisted outside organizations and governments had not...