Word: firestorm
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Yesterday’s favorable decision in Lawrence v. Texas is certain to spark a firestorm in the political world. This year has seen gay marriage legalized in Belgium and the province of Ontario, and legalization on its way in the rest of Canada. Democratic presidential candidates are furiously courting gay audiences, while conservative groups are grumbling forebodingly that they might look elsewhere in 2004 if President Bush seems too friendly to gays. Already, these groups have been successful in their efforts to force U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft to call off the Justice Department?...
...with exam period nearing, the reaction to the Salient’s issue was slight compared to the firestorm following Pappin’s December letter, ending for now Pappin’s time in the spotlight...
...Summers become more of a Coolidge than a Teddy Roosevelt? The answer, it seems, has something to do with the “hate him” half of the equation. Last fall, Summers’ bold stance was met with a firestorm of outrage. “We’ve been suffocated!” shouted crybabies at the top of their lungs. Somehow, his expression of profound personal conviction was taken as an implied threat to free discourse...
Overnight, his speech sparked a media firestorm that played to the basest fears of Americans swept up in a frightening cold war and triggered loyalty oaths, blacklists and personal betrayals that cost an estimated 10,000 Americans their jobs and some shattered innocents their lives. In 1954 he turned his bullying on the U.S. Army in widely watched television hearings that ultimately exposed McCarthy for the fraudulent demagogue he was. He died a broken alcoholic three years later, but his name remains synonymous with the most reviled style of American politics. --By Johanna McGeary
...concentrating on the basics--eating, sleeping, training. But even the training seems to be winding down. Like athletes resting before a big game, many of the troops have eased off their intense schedules. They spend their time checking and rechecking equipment, packing and repacking bags and contemplating the coming firestorm. "They want to know that they've made peace with their Maker," says Marine Lieut. Colonel Bryan P. McCoy. "And that their families are taken care of in case anything happens--and they've already asked for forgiveness for what we're going to do to the Iraqi army. With...