Word: angers
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...this time, anger is a necessary thing," said Wayne M. Langley, director of higher education for the Service Employees International Union Local 615, to a cheering crowd. "People have to stand up, rise up, and defend our rights...this is only the beginning...
Horror on the Doorstep In another country, reports of elected representatives milking their expenses might send folk on to the streets to burn a few cars. Britons are angry - you only need to drop the word politician into a conversation to discover just how furious they are - but their anger is of the slow-burning, passive-aggressive variety of a people who wear socks with sandals. All the mainstream parties encountered hostility on the doorstep as they campaigned for last week's elections, but Labour, as the party of government, was perceived to carry the heaviest responsibility. "When we talk...
...Kashmir RIOTS OVER RAPE VICTIMS Deep-seated anger at the Indian government erupted into massive protests on June 8, when 15,000 Kashmir residents took to the streets over a forensics report confirming that two young women--who authorities say drowned but family members claim had been abducted and raped by Indian troops--had indeed been sexually assaulted. Police used tear gas and warning shots to quell the riots, injuring hundreds. Unrest has plagued strife-torn Kashmir, the subject of a long-term boundary dispute between India and Pakistan, since the women's bodies were found...
...That same point was made by many Chinese netizens, whose anger over the attack on Google dominated online forums and billboards following the June 19 airing of a program critical of Google on CCTV. China's "human-flesh search engine" - a vigilante Internet mob that discovers the identities and publishes personal details of those who displease netizens - also swung into action. The group claimed that a Beijing youth, depicted in a CCTV program as a university student who had mounted an anti-Google campaign, was actually a CCTV staff member...
...Shah - especially one who resides in Maryland and isn't allowed to cross the Iranian border. But he would like to return home as a welcomed citizen and share his roots with his wife and his three Iranian-American daughters. (Read "State Television Becomes a Focus for Iranian Anger...