Word: furor
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...Congress, a decision by the Secretary of Defense or a Supreme Court ruling. So far, the court has upheld the ban in all the cases it has agreed to hear, and despite public support for reversal, few politicians seem ready to take up the cause. Nonetheless, last week's furor revived a basic question: Can any country with volunteer armed forces afford to exclude talented people on the basis of fear...
...country seems to be suffering an outbreak of that endemic French affliction called malaise. The symptoms: widespread public unease; a volatile mixture of boredom, anxiety and irritation, carrying the potential for triggering sudden acts of collective furor. Change is beginning to look overwhelming to many of the French, eroding the old certainties that once defined Frenchness for everyone. Traditional institutions are in decline, including the church, marriage, labor unions and even the leisurely lunch. In foreign affairs, defense, economic policy, even eating habits and consumer tastes, the French are becoming more like their neighbors -- and they're not sure they...
...furor began when L'Evenement du Jeudi, a weekly magazine, published the confidential minutes of a 1985 CNTS meeting during which agency officials concluded that 100% of the concentrated blood-clotting factors used to treat French hemophiliacs were contaminated with the AIDS virus (HIV). The agency, which has a monopoly on blood for transfusions, not only kept its suspicions secret, but it had also ignored a 1984 recommendation from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control that blood products be heated in order to kill the deadly virus...
...National Interest), hears in some voices of the neocon chorus "echoes of the 1930s -- echoes of nativism and xenophobia, indifference (or worse) to Nazism and fascism, broad hints of anti-Semitism." He does not name names, but he clearly has in mind Buchanan, who has created a furor by insinuating that Jews fanned the flames of the gulf war. Kristol believes that in an increasingly interdependent world, "Fortress America" is simply not an option...
...George Carey, who will be formally installed this Friday, told an interviewer, "The idea that only a male can represent Christ on the altar is a most serious heresy." The comment prompted protests from Anglican traditionalists, who vehemently oppose the ordination of women. Carey apologized, but the furor had barely subsided when he declared that his enthronement would feature a brief selection of songs accompanied by bass guitar, synthesizer and saxophone. The notion of the ancient ceremony being interrupted by 20th century sounds has scandalized the church's right wing. Huffs Donald Webster, a Fellow of the Royal College...