Word: bitter
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...School Committee has been paralyzed by its failure to hire a superintendent after dismissing the black incumbent, Laval Wilson, last February amid criticism that his management style was too aloof. The removal has sparked bitter charges of racism, and last week a leading candidate withdrew his name because of the continuing divisions. The council proposal would empower the mayor to hire and fire the superintendent. Critics worry, however, that such a move could open school doors even wider to political patronage...
BOSTON--Senate President William Bulger's top aide, Paul Mahoney, whose nomination for a Malden District Court judgeship touched off a bitter battle between his boss and Harvard Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, was unanimously confirmed for the job yesterday by the Governor's Council...
...After a bitter debate last night, concerns that Cambridge's large contingent of non-Christians might be offended by the public display of traditionally religious symbols prompted the City Council to nix a proposal to place a Christmas tree in the City Hall lobby...
...waist in water." Says Wilde, who is based in Rome: "Give me the desert anytime." The jungle terrain and guerrilla nature of the war in Southeast Asia made for unconventional fighting, recalls correspondent James Willwerth. During his 14 months in Vietnam, he witnessed ground won in bitter campaigns at great human cost changing hands again and again. By contrast, he says, a war in the gulf area would be more of a conventional military operation with a well-defined front...
...Radcliffe Alumni/ae Against Apartheid urges the next president to make achieving the goals of diversity and social responsibility the highest priority of the new administration. Harvard's stature can only be enhanced by having these achievements come as the result of official University policy rather than as the bitter fruit of years of contention...