Word: dustup
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...altercation was only the latest dustup in what has become both the ugliest, and perhaps most critical, Senate contest in the country. This race was supposed to be a debate about one of the defining issues of the campaign, Iraq - between Allen, a strong defender of the war and once potential 2008 G.O.P. presidential nominee, and Webb, the former Navy secretary who became a Democrat in part because of his objections to the war. The race, which is now effectively tied after Allen had been leading slightly, could determine which party controls the Senate next year...
More important, many of them were probably not partisans but people who might not have paid any attention to the stem-cell issue before the celebrity dustup roused their curiosity. (Just what made Rush so mad? How shaky does Alex P. Keaton look now, anyway?) In a past election, viewers might have seen the controversial ads only if they lived in Missouri or caught them on the news. Now they can find them, in full, at their leisure. They can also expand on, rebut or parody the ads, as numerous YouTubers did, including breatheasy7000, a woman whose 17-second video...
...White House. After a few days of silence on Boykin, Bush told pool reporters on Air Force One, "He didn't reflect my opinion." Rumsfeld would go no further, pleading that the sound on the videotapes of Boykin's incendiary remarks was too scratchy to be understood. In his dustup with Warner, Rumsfeld went so far as to say it was Boykin who requested a Pentagon probe--perhaps so evangelicals wouldn't blame the Bush team for going after one of their own. Still, Boykin's days are numbered. "His job effectiveness is over," said retired Army General Barry McCaffrey...
...aware of what they don't have access to. But the people of China are like birds that know they are caged and realize they may never get a chance to fly free. Google's willingness to censor Internet searches should not be seen as just "a little ethical dustup." China's citizens want change, but the Chinese government controls society by controlling information. Zhihua Hu New York City...
...aware of what they don't have access to. But the people of China are like birds that know they are caged and realize they may never get a chance to fly free. Google's willingness to censor Internet searches should not be seen as just "a little ethical dustup." China's citizens want change, but the Chinese government controls society by controlling information. Zhihua Hu New York City...