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...submitted my resignation to President Bush twice during that period." DONALD RUMSFELD, U.S. Secretary of Defense, recalling the uproar over abuses at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison...
...extremely surprised and disturbed by the uproar,” he said in an interview with The Crimson yesterday. “I did not intend any public discussion of my speech at all, only to stimulate various kinds of statistical research by putting forth hypotheses...
...North Vietnamese leadership. But 14 years later she was announcing that communism was "fascism with a human face," a statement that she had the courage to make before a left-wing crowd. Courage was never a problem for her. In the days right after 9/11 she created an uproar when she wrote in the New Yorker that it was a mistake to call the hijackers cowardly, a judgment issued with her typical brisk authority and with the inevitable result that it sounded callous, however true it may have been. At the height of the Serbian campaign against Sarajevo she traveled...
...only true motive seems to be that it can, just maybe, get more money from Harvard. If this is the case, the agreement is ridiculous. Should Harvard be able to arbitrarily demand renegotiation of the agreement when it thinks it might get less? We can only imagine the uproar about broken promises and bad faith that would ensue if Harvard cynically tried to renege on a bargain. Cambridge should have enough self-respect to hold itself to a similar standard...
...think the lack of public uproar in Massachusetts is telling—the sky didn’t fall on May 17,” said Cambridge City Councillor Brian P. Murphy ’86-’87, referring to the date when the state first issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples...