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...five of his men set forth, paddling with boards and rifle butts. Three Russians slid down the bank to meet them. They all shook hands and slapped one another's backs. This was a historic moment, they said. But when Kotzebue reported to headquarters, his commander was furious at his disobedience and ordered that the whole encounter be kept secret...
Spewing water and unleashing groans of exertion, the Black and White first varsity boat came just short in a furious chase of the Tigers, falling by a margin of 2.3 seconds...
...Arab satellite channels, provoking outrage among Iraqi Shi'ites, who have held demonstrations ever since outside the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad. The report also ignited a diplomatic feud between Jordan, which has denied that al-Banna was involved in the Hilla attack, and the interim Iraqi government, which is furious at the failure of its neighbors to stop the flow of foreign fighters into Iraq. The war of words has become so heated that both countries briefly recalled their ambassadors. "The people are fed up," says Labid Abawi, an Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister. "They don't see the Arabs...
...shot to the top of the political agenda this month, driven by public-sector workers who staged mass demonstrations. Last week, the government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin promised a 1% raise for the public sector, on top of the 1% already awarded for this year. Private-sector employers are furious, saying the hike will set a national precedent when they can ill afford it. "If we increase pay without increasing productivity, we'll be destroying competitiveness and creating unemployment," griped Ernest-Antoine Seillière, head of the employers' federation. But unions say firms can afford raises, pointing to recent...
...mail or the hamburger commercial with a woman lasciviously riding a mechanical bull. It's watching a sports program with your young child and hearing the host blurt, "A______!" Tim Tutt, a single, third-grade teacher in Des Moines, calls himself "a liberal, anticensorship person." But he was furious when he visited a website for his students and up popped an ad with a sexy blond. "Boy, did I lose control of the class for a moment," he says. "Then I felt this conservative rage within me--'Why was that necessary?'" People care, in other words, about context as well...