Word: anger
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...from Chinese readers, mostly about my stories on TIME's website or my posts on our China Blog. Some of the criticism can be pretty sharp--that comes with the territory. But the opprobrium has taken on a distinctly unpleasant edge in recent weeks as a wave of nationalist anger has roiled China. "Simon, you will be hated by 1.3 billion Chinese," someone wrote in response to my blog post about the chaotic progress of the Olympic torch through London. "Hope someday someone will spit on your face. Your name will be recorded in Chinese history book forever...
...membership action plans” to Albania and Croatia but declined Ukraine and Georgia’s requests for similar plans. Many NATO member states saw the prospect of bringing these former Soviet states into the organization as dangerous because of the likelihood that their admission would anger Russia. Instances like these illustrate the political tensions that NATO’s exclusion of Russia causes. NATO was conceived in 1949 as a bulwark against the Communist bloc, which formed the Warsaw Pact in response. Even though the Warsaw Pact dissolved 20 years ago and many of its former constituents have...
...anger evident in Kadeer's comments has been exacerbated in recent months. On three occasions - most recently on April 10 - officials in the Chinese capital have announced that security forces foiled planned attacks by what they called Muslim separatist groups from the province. Details were scant but the most recent announcement alleged that some 45 Uighurs in the provincial capital of Urümqi had been arrested in raids that uncovered plans to kidnap athletes and others attending the 2008 Beijing Olympics. An earlier report alleged that a young Uighur woman had tried to smuggle a bomb aboard a commercial...
...memorable for its grating, repetitive electric guitar and use of bass chords over a monotonous drum beat. This could seem to be a lapse in the creativity and melodic capacity of the artists, but taken in the context of the whole album, it serves as an effective moment of anger, as the singer demands, “Can you feel?” over and over again, as if he already knows the answer in his pessimistic mind. While creating energetic, moving pieces with melodies obviously influenced by groups like The Velvet Underground and My Bloody Valentine, the Brian Jonestown...
...responded: "Two thousand years ago this young fella stood up in defense of a whore and said he who is without sin cast the first stone. I know there are some sinless folks here so why don't you stand up so we can applaud you." That calmed the anger. For a while too, the town feared that the newcomers would take over the local government. When that did not happen, the mayor said the community developed a "detente" with the FLDS leaders, who nevertheless assiduously kept non-believers off their Yearning for Zion Ranch...