Word: furor
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Talk about spin doctors. The furor in India's Congress party over the foreign origins of its leader, Sonia Gandhi, may yet turn out to be an elaborate form of political inoculation. Mrs. Gandhi resigned as party leader Monday, after three senior leaders wrote a letter insisting that no foreign-born person should be allowed to be in charge of India. The action came after Congress's fiercest rival, the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), made clear that it planned to make Mrs. Gandhi's Italian birth the centerpiece of its campaign in an election bereft of policy issues...
...Illinois cases of errant prosecution bring a new element to the growing national debate about overzealous law-enforcement agents, a furor stoked by high-profile police shootings in New York and California as well as "racial profiling" by New Jersey state troopers. The question is whether law enforcement, amid its extraordinary success in pushing the crime rate down, is showing too little regard for individual rights--especially those of blacks and Hispanics, who are most often targets of alleged misconduct. "We cannot have the kind of country we want if people are afraid of those folks who are trying...
...pointless spraying of a DDT/fuel-oil mix over eastern Long Island for eradication of the gypsy moth. Next, an all-out war in the Southern states against the fire ant did such widespread harm to other creatures that its beneficiaries cried for mercy; and after that a great furor arose across the country over the spraying of cranberry plants with aminotriazole, which led to an Agriculture Department ban against all cranberry marketing just in time for Thanksgiving...
While Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth S. Nathans said the message is just a restatement of a longstanding FDO policy, it has provoked a furor among students who said the ban has never been enforced before...
...furor over the alcohol-related death of MIT first-year Scott Krueger was not the catalyst for Cops in Shops, Cambridge officials say, but they admit Krueger's death was always in the back of their minds...