Word: angers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Conservative editorial writers in Pakistani newspapers are already criticizing the government for handing over Kansi to the Americans without following typical extradition procedures; in the suspect's hometown of Quetta a steady stream of well-wishers have come to the Kansi family home to express anger over the matter. "Kansi is a local hero," says Syed Talat Hussain, a newspaper columnist. "People praise him for the audacity of his crime. He took on the most dreaded intelligence agency in the world, and that gave him instant popularity." By contrast, in Washington there is only exultation. Kansi, who made incriminating statements...
...invisible, but they pose the most serious threat to China's political stability. The city labors under omnipresent police, armed cops patrolling the streets of the industrial zone, gun-toting guards standing sentry in factory doorways, plainclothesmen nosing into every stranger's business. At any sign of citizen anger, party officials respond quickly to keep the city quiet, fixing water mains or repairing broken heaters. The city's new technocratic mayor has permitted small, regular, controlled demonstrations at city hall to let citizens vent their spleen about unpaid pensions and missing salary checks. But there have also been at least...
...ready to stretch its new thinking to national politics. Li Dongju credits her achievements to Deng's "wise opening," and she resents it when outsiders say China's ways are all bad. If there is a rising tide of nationalism, it lies less in dreams of hegemony than in anger at the patronizing demands of the West. "We are very proud of China and of being Chinese, and we do not like foreigners to criticize our ways," says Li Xiumin. "It is like a family. You know there are problems in your family, but you do not want other families...
After the meeting, Harvard officials said they were optimistic that the anger residents showed would be put aside and Harvard's presence in the neighborhood would benefit both Harvard and Allston...
...this, Jones must simply ask for mercy. TIME's Patrick Cole reports that the defense will call family members, teachers and military officials as character witnesses. The defense will use the testimony to argue that McVeigh's sentence should be reduced to life in prison because his he anger over the FBI siege at Waco overwhelmed reason and led him to act. That's a tough sell for 12 jurors who just spent three days weeping over the 168 people McVeigh killed...