Word: skeptics
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...claims his block H tattoo—in the style of the Harvard football helmet—is “more of a football tattoo than for the actual school.” Nik A. Sobic ’06-’07, a self-described tattoo-skeptic, chose to commemorate his own successful Ivory Tower career with an elaborate Harvard athletic shield tattooed on his (rather large) bicep. Until he came to Harvard, he says, nothing had been ink-worthy. But some Harvardians shy away from marking themselves with the H-bomb, even if they don?...
...always struck me as an odd message to ‘get a passport,’” Lewis says. “People accepted coming here because they were eager to be here.” An outspoken skeptic of the recent emphasis on study abroad, Lewis believes that there is a risk in approving programs that may not meet Harvard’s rigorous academic standards...
...know what those other cycles were caused by in the past. It could be dinosaur flatulence. Who knows?" REPRESENTATIVE DANA ROHRABACHER, a Republican global-warming skeptic, during a congressional hearing on the climate-change report, which concluded for the first time that evidence linking human behavior to rising global temperatures was "unequivocal...
Rethinking History Iran calls Holocaust conference Holocaust skeptic and Iranian Prez Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has invited scholars from 30 nations to a conference this week in Tehran to debate issues like whether the Nazis used gas chambers...
...Turkey, meanwhile, a different kind of skepticism is taking root. When Turkey began membership talks, 64% of Turks in one poll said they were in favor of joining the E.U. By this month that number had dropped to 32%. Nationalist parties critical of the government's pro-E.U. policies are gaining strength. Support for the country's two right-wing Euro-skeptic opposition parties has grown to 26% from about 17% four years ago. If they capture that much of the vote in next year's election, they could force a coalition with Erdogan's AK Party...