Word: brouhaha
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Joining the endless speculation and discussion of the value of monarchy to Britain, the Economist finally catches the wave of popular resentment, and proposes a referendum to abolish the monarchy in favor of a British republic. Precipitated by the current brouhaha, in other words, lots of Britons are being tempted to throw the entire bad lot away--abolishing royalty guarantees no more royal scandals, because there won't be anybody to be scandalized...
...legal brouhaha began on October 5 when Walsh removed three items from "Identidem," Evers' solo art show at Gallery 57--a public art space in the City Hall Annex on Inman Street...
...brewing brouhaha over White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers' rumored reassignment -- as well as the idea of a White House staff overhaul -- has apparently come to nothing. Chief of staff Leon Panetta announced today that Myers would keep her job, plus receive a promotion to assistant to the President. But Myers also reportedly told friends she's splitting from the White House before the year is out. Other changes in the President's office sound like small potatoes compared with Panetta's previous promise of a major perestroika: communications director Mark Gearan, for example, is now Panetta's coordinator...
...building brouhaha is really no big deal if you comparison-shop, Washington style. The $310 million price tag, TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompson points out, is far short of $2 billion for just one of the CIA's KH-12 satellites. And it's just one-eighth the cost of a B-2 bomber: "$300 million?" Thompson notes. "That's barely enough for an airbag...
...Harlem's City College, day one of Professor Leonard Jeffries' spring semester class, African Heritage 101, begins meekly -- no sign of the brouhaha that surrounded Jeffries' dismissal in 1992 from his post as chairman of the college's Black Studies department for having allegedly made anti-Semitic statements; no sign of the uproar that greeted Jeffries' court-ordered reinstatement (and $400,000 damages award) last August; no sign of the outraged editorials that have made Jeffries a national figure. And no sign of Jeffries. Forty-five minutes after class was scheduled to start in a windowless, first-floor lecture hall...