Word: firestorm
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...study presented at the convention of the American Psychiatric Association, he argued that some "highly motivated" homosexuals may be able to turn themselves into heterosexuals. The A.P.A. quickly distanced itself from the study, and gay-rights groups condemned it. In the days since, the work has sparked a firestorm in the psychological community, one that may say more about questionable science than it ever could about sexual orientation...
Blessed are the peacemakers. Blessed, and beleaguered, as Pope John Paul II has discovered on his tour of Syria. The pontiff found himself at the center of a familiar Middle Eastern political firestorm Monday, as his Syrian hosts took him to the ruins of Kuneitra, a town bordering the Golan Heights that was destroyed by Israeli forces in 1974 and has been maintained as a ghost town ever since. And while the pope prayed for peace and for the victims of the latest Israeli-Palestinian violence, Israelis expressed outrage at remarks by Syria's President Bashar Assad in welcoming...
...grunge, to Nirvana on "Saturday Night Live" with the No. 1 record in the country. In the old Lower East Side of New York, rock was becoming dangerous again, was being taken back from dinosaur FM, graying A&R flacks and marketing departments. In England it set off a firestorm. And it was all happening in a little club on the Bowery, just north of Houston Street...
...Given the political firestorm that would undoubtedly follow such a decision, Evans was reportedly approaching this announcement with some trepidation. Thursday, the Census Bureau made Evans' life a whole lot easier, advising the secretary in no uncertain terms to reject any revised numbers. There is no evidence, the bureau's director told Evans, that adjusted figures would be any more accurate than the original numbers. Evans' final verdict, his aides insist, is not set in stone - and until it is, civil rights leaders and Democrats will pepper his office with statements opposing the bureau's recommendation...
President Clinton's pardon of fugitive billionaire Marc Rich ignited the firestorm - but inside the Justice Department, career prosecutors are also burning over the clemency grant for Manhattan lawyer Harvey Weinig, sentenced in 1996 to 11 years in prison for facilitating an extortion-kidnapping scheme and helping launder at least $19 million for the Cali cocaine cartel. In Weinig's case, Clinton didn't bypass the Department of Justice - he defied...