Word: imbroglio
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...Corporation, the seven-member board that steers the university, isn?t commenting beyond an announcement that they accepted the resignation ?with regret.? But Summers has been remarkably resilient through other flashes of faculty anger, even last year?s no-confidence vote on the heels of the women-in-science imbroglio. And he came into the job with a reputation as a blunt talker...
...university is investigating the Snuppy report, along with Hwang's original 2004 stem-cell paper in Science. Hwang maintains that the current imbroglio involved no fraud on his part. He claims that a mix-up with the stem cells resulted in the wrong stem-cell lines--ones he did not create--being published in Science. Despite his failure so far to prove it, he still insists that he has developed the technology to create human stem cells that could be used to grow resistance-free replacements for damaged nerve, organ and muscle tissue. Despite black, billowing smoke, says Hwang, there...
...With Reno's blessing, Justice officials picked a prosecutor with impeccable Republican credentials -- Donald Mackay, a fraud-section lawyer who was once a Nixon-appointed U.S. attorney -- to direct the criminal investigation of Madison and Whitewater. Which of these scandals will dog the President? Perhaps not the sexual imbroglio -- Americans knew Clinton had sinned but elected him anyway. Says William E. Leuchtenburg, professor of history at the University of North Carolina: ''It's one question if this sort of thing arises during a campaign, and we have to wonder what sort of President this person will be. It's another...
Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz has found himself at the center of an imbroglio involving issues ranging from anti-Semitism to the First Amendment after he tried to discourage the University of California Press from publishing a forthcoming book about Israel...
...during the imbroglio that a group of Summers supporters printed T-shirts parodying the popular Che Guevara “Viva La Revolution!”, with Summers’ scowling face above the phrase: “Viva El Presidente Summers...