Word: anti-british
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...Spring and early summer has always been a fraught time in Northern Ireland. Republicans hold events to commemorate the anniversary of the Easter Rising of 1916 - an anti-British rebellion in Dublin that was violently suppressed by British troops - while the Orange Order holds marches across the province to mark the victory of the Protestant King William of Orange over Catholic James II in the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Although the "marching season" has passed off relatively peacefully in recent years, it's feared the actions of an emboldened dissident movement could once again ignite these historical rivalries...
...sect's most prominent figure in Iraq. Many U.S. military commanders and Iraqi government officials believe he is the spiritual head of the insurgency, and accuse his son Muthanna of personally commanding a deadly terror group known as the Brigades of the 1920 Revolution (named after an anti-British uprising led by Harith al-Dari's grandfather). Both al-Daris deny direct connection with the Brigades, but say Sunni insurgent groups are part of a legitimate, nationalist resistance to occupation. He has given religious sanction to some of the insurgency's more controversial tactics, such as kidnapping and killing foreigners...
...Essentially, people are anti-British right now because of the war [in Iraq],” he said. “If we re-elect Blair after he has gone to war, then we as the electorate have essentially authorized...
...little worried when I started giving readings in Paris, since I'm clearly not 27," he says. "Hardly anybody noticed." Perhaps they were too busy laughing - or fuming - at the cultural mishaps of young West, whose tea-room project is undermined by work-shy French colleagues and Iraq-fueled anti-British sentiment. Merde, named after the residue found on Paris sidewalks, takes swipes at such institutions as government ("a French politician without a mistress is like a sheriff without a gun - people think he has no firepower"), cheek-kissing ("if ever there's a serious epidemic of facial herpes, they...
...surprise. Aside from a handful of lesser Olympians, India had chosen Bollywood stars and cricketers as the guardians of sports' supreme icon. The crowds were huge, and understandably so: the incongruous sight of India's finest actor, Aamir Khan, outfitted for his latest role as a 19th century anti-British mutineer with shoulder-length hair and a handlebar moustache, jogging with the futuristic metallic torch, was undeniably arresting. The newspapers went front page with pictures of an equally unlikely torchbearer?actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai, kitted out in a white tracksuit, giggling with her boyfriend, actor Vivek Oberoi...