Word: anger
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...puzzle is what are the Communist Party cadres in Beijing feeling as they watch these events unfold ? Anger certainly. And worry about how the staging of the Olympic Games in August could be affected. But by all accounts, they have also been surprised, shocked at how resentment over Chinese rule has suddenly exploded, threatening to spoil what was supposed to be a positive, peaceful run-up to the Games...
...working in New York, that was a first. Actually, that was a first in the seven years since I started wearing a hijab. A lot of people turned to look at me as he shouted those words. I don't know exactly what I was feeling - some mixture of anger and embarrassment - but I knew I wanted to stop and explain to this man the significance of what he dismissed as a "rag." He didn't understand the one thing I cherished most, the thing that I took so much care in making sure I did right - my religion...
What were the communist party cadres in Beijing feeling as they watched Lhasa burning in mid-March? Anger certainly. And worry about how the staging of the Olympic Games in August could be affected. But they were also surprised, shocked at how Tibetan resentment over Chinese rule had suddenly exploded into widespread rioting - not just in Lhasa but throughout regions with major ethnic Tibetan populations - spoiling what was supposed to be a positive, peaceful run-up to the Games...
...through biographical examination of certain representative artists, that Black Power has not died out but has merely been channeled through the new black musical form; artists such as Sugarhill Gang, Run-D.M.C., 2Pac, and DMX have replaced Malcolm X and Louis Farrakhan as the new prophets of black anger and frustration, the definers of racial identity, and the proponents for social and political change.Reeves provides a systematic chronicle that takes the reader from hip-hop’s origins its current manifestations. He charts how DJs’ isolation of the breakbeat at huge New York block parties...
...though American boycotts of the Olympics are unprecedented. In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. In response, the United States and most other NATO nations boycotted the Moscow Olympics the next year. By reducing the Olympics to a contest between Communist nations, the West was able to express its anger at the Kremlin’s misdeeds. If a host nation’s aggression against a neighbor warrants a boycott, surely a host nation’s aggression against its own people warrants one as well...