Word: uproarous
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...uproar over kid nation about abuse or fear that the children will succeed and put parents out of a job? We cannot hold our children's wings all their lives and then expect them to know how to fly when we let them go. Kids need parents, but they also need the freedom to learn and grow. Let them experience the sting of failure and the joy of success. And trust them! Danica Conway, LONGMONT, COLO., U.S. Poniewozik's article was a quick yet deeply gratifying read. In one page he managed to sum up the rationale and angst...
...Craigslist stigma” is why postings like the one from a “Harvard senior seeking female companion” have attracted more mirth than uproar. The senior’s insistence on a “white, 5’6” - 5’9”, young, blonde, attractive, and intelligent” date, and his final stipulations: “No Black, Asian, overweight, or unattractive women please,” if expressed in conversation or with his name attached, would have marked him for life. Yet the fact that life has driven...
...revisit an age-old controversy triggered by politician and former Harvard professor Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s 1965 report on the source of poverty in the black urban community. The Moynihan report was leaked to the press during his tenure as U.S. assistant secretary of labor, prompting an uproar because of its claims that the “tangled pathology” and fragmented structure of black families led to high poverty rates among urban blacks. The three-day conference, “The Moynihan Report Revisited: Lessons and Reflections After Four Decades,” began yesterday...
...move out and move in. Lost boxes are remarkably rare and are often the result of disorganization and haste rather than malicious removal. It’s unfortunate that some students are peeved about not being able to find stored items, but overall this is not cause for uproar. If a student needs peace of mind, he or she can always contract another storage company—of which there are many that will insure stored belongings. It is unreasonable to argue that the College, which already goes to great lengths to provide storage and protect stored items, should...
...more hard-core stuff like you did on Get Rich or Die Tryin' [in 2003]? -Raveen Bhasin, DallasI take into consideration what the music business is facing with things like the Don Imus situation. I think it would cause a full uproar if I wrote [hard-core] lyrics from that perspective all the way through my album. That's why I released Curtis instead of my next project, Before I Self Destruct. It's more of a hard-core sound, and it would be too aggressive for this period...