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According to some professors, Kirby deserves to be criticized for failing to ensure that the Faculty is capable of self-governance. They say that not only is Summers too strong a leader, but that Kirby is too weak a defender of the Faculty—and that now is the time for him to shore up this role...
...showing in the B-division let the Bears edge the College of Charleston for first place in the regatta. Under skipper and three-time singlehanded national champion Anna Tunnicliffe, Old Dominion University never finished out of the top 10 in the A-division, winning four races. With a weak performance from its B-division, however, the Monarchs finished eighth overall in the regatta...
...last week, they offered him the chance to surrender. When he refused, the Russians say, they blasted the concrete bunker in which he was hiding, killing him in the process. That final gesture of defiance has transformed Maskhadov's reputation. For years, many former comrades disdained him as a weak political leader who, after a victorious war of secession against Russia in the mid-1990s, allowed thugs and religious fanatics to take over Chechnya. Radical guerrillas scorned him for his desire to negotiate with the Russians. Many ordinary Chechens reviled him as the cause of their misery. Now, Maskhadov...
...Cornell had become the central place where black power entered the universities for the first time. There was a weak president eager to be on the good side of a hot new thing, admitting great numbers of black students, no matter what their preparation. Of course, it was very hard on those kids. It was much harder to defend institutions that people saw as bourgeois. People just didn't feel good about them. It was more important to be engaged and committed. At places like Cornell, people just didn't believe in very much any longer. Free discussion...
...only so much we can do.” Another senior government official interviewed by The New York Times said that “Nothing is 100 percent unless we’re sitting there staring at them 24 hours a day.” Apparently, these weak excuses are the best that our government can come up with in response to first-hand accounts of the innocent, brutalized victims of rendition...