Word: firestorm
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Pope Benedict XVI's controversial comments about Islam have already ignited a firestorm of criticism in the Muslim world, but it may end up costing the Vatican more than just its reputation. A top Catholic Church official inside Turkey says the polemics following Benedict XVI's comments about Islam may cause the cancellation of his November visit to the majority Muslim country, which is nevertheless governed on secular principles...
...Macaca" (a.k.a. S.R. Sidarth) got the gibe on video. Last week, three days after Allen spoke, Webb's campaign posted it on YouTube.com and ignited a firestorm. Now other campaigns are worried about being "YouTubed" and losing control of their message in cyberspace. But not everyone thinks the scrutiny that comes with such publicity is a bad thing. In fact, YouTube could be seen as a new tool for political accountability. As a G.O.P. official notes, "If you don't say something stupid, you don't have to worry about YouTube...
...amazed by a widespread nostalgia emanating from popular culture. In a very short span of time, artistic expressions across languages and latitudes have returned to the revolutionary afternoons of May ’68—when a French student protest regarding university visitation rules erupted into a national firestorm. In England, newcomer singer Sandi Thom managed to bring “I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker” to the top of the June charts. In the song, she regrets having been born “too late, to a world that does not care...
...White House to discuss suitable candidates for patronage appointments in the South. On Oct. 16, 1901, Washington dined with the President, Roosevelt's wife Edith and a family friend, then left town on a midnight train. No sooner did news of the meal became public than the firestorm began. Accused of promoting "social equality," which some feared would encourage intermarriage of white women and black men, Roosevelt was widely villainized. In particular, the thought of race mixing at the highest levels made white Southerners apoplectic. Newspaper headlines roared Roosevelt Dines A Darkey and Our Coon-Flavored President. South Carolina Senator...
...afternoon of April 26, 1937, when the Junkers JU52 bombers of the Luftwaffe's Condor Legion arrived. For three hours high-explosive and incendiary devices fell on the town, whose narrow streets were packed with villagers and peasants from the surrounding countryside. Those who managed to flee the firestorm were hunted and strafed by Messerschmitt and Fiat fighter planes. A third of the town's 5,000 residents were killed, mostly children and old people; perhaps another thousand visitors died. Far from the front lines of the Spanish Civil War, which had begun the previous July, the town...