Word: furiously
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...dress, a new watch and a large sum of cash. Her parents had her tested for rape; the result was positive. According to Shabaan's account, Uday heard she had been tested and sent aides to the clinic, where they warned doctors not to report a rape. Furious, the father demanded to see Saddam himself. Rebuffed, he kept complaining publicly about what Uday had done. After three months, the President's son had had enough. He sent two guards to the man to insist that he drop the matter. Uday had another demand: that the ex-governor bring his daughter...
...Finally, the Democrats need to reclaim education. Bush successfully neutralized the Dems? traditional strength on the issue in 2000 by making improving schools a pillar of his compassionate conservatism. He quickly pushed the No Child Left Behind Act through Congress, but two years later, the states are furious about the law. Their beef? It imposes huge new testing requirements, and yet the President has not appropriated enough money to pay for it. States have to shell out an estimated $35 billion out of their own pockets. The resulting squeeze has forced 20 states to cut k-12 education programs. Schools...
...soap opera for guys, set in what we're told is the glamorous world of casino security, which apparently involves more than keeping drunk computer salesmen from groping the cocktail waitresses. Starring James Caan, Nikki Cox and Cheryl Ladd, it comes from the writer of "The Fast and the Furious" (It had a writer! Who knew?) and is assured to be a hit, says Zucker, because "Our highest-reated 'Fear Factor' ever took place in Las Vegas...
...afternoon, citizens were still milling around the village's Communist Party headquarters under the watchful gaze of police. The uprisings had begun on the night of May 3, when word leaked out that six potentially SARS-infected patients from out of town would be quarantined in the party building. Furious that they hadn't been consulted about a decision to isolate possibly contagious patients in a makeshift ward just meters from the local school, dozens of villagers attacked the party headquarters, trashing three rooms and pelting the bureaucrats inside with stones. "I was very scared," says one trapped official...
...that some suspected new cases have appeared in Canadians who, unlike everyone previously diagnosed with SARS, have not traveled to Asia. The global health group has issued a travel advisory, urging " persons planning to travel [to Toronto] to consider postponing all but essential travel." Meanwhile, Toronto city officials are furious with the announcement, claiming the WHO's decree is premature, and arguing the resultant decline in tourist and business traffic could send the city into a financial tailspin. The mayor has asked the WHO to repeal the advisory...