Word: furor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...furor over the U.N.'s attempt to discipline Loi quickly widened last week into a full-scale international debate over the pistol-packing tactics the peacekeepers are pursuing to destroy one of Somalia's most powerful warlords. After weeks of escalating assaults on Aidid's compounds, the Italian government, the aid community in Mogadishu and many Somali citizens charged that the attacks served mainly to broaden the war and divert attention from the primary goal of humanitarian relief. "A peace mission," said Italian chief of staff General Domenico Corcione, "is being transformed into a war operation...
...this is not a case of the advancing enemy. The campus furor over Inside Edge is just another example of Harvard taking itself too seriously. The "best and the brightest," as Perspective so arrogantly puts it, are susceptible to the same peer pressures as everyone else. Most kids who buy Inside Edge are probably just as insecure, and just as innocuous, as the kids who write it. A real-life Edge Man would be too drunk to read...
...America a fixation on assassination conspiracies? After all, the latest furor over who really killed J.F.K., inspired by Oliver Stone's movie, has only recently abated. There remain rabid challenges to official versions of the Martin Luther King and Malcolm X murders. To sociologist Amitai Etzioni, the fascination with these questions reflects a need to explain life's inexplicable dark side: Why did all these heroes die? That tendency is encouraged by America's individualism, which encourages an instinctive distrust of authority and officialdom...
...Condom. When it comes to sex, the message to America's kids is confused and confusing. The moral standards society once generally accepted, or at least paid lip service to, fell victim to a sexual revolution and a medical tragedy. A decade marked by fear of AIDS and furor over society's values made it hard to agree on the ethical issues and emotional context that used to be part of learning about sex. Those on the right reacted to condom giveaways and gay curriculums and throbbing MTV videos as signs of moral breakdown. Those on the left dismissed such...
...daughter Dylan, 7, and son Moses, 15, was shadowed by his admitted affair with Soon-Yi Farrow Previn, now 22, adopted daughter of Mia and her second husband, composer Andre Previn. While acknowledging at last that "perhaps this was wrong, not wise," Allen still professed some bewilderment at the furor this liaison has caused. "At the very outset," he testified, "it didn't occur to me that this would be anything but a private thing." And the Polaroid photographs he took of a nude Soon-Yi in January of last year? "She suggested that I take some pictures...