Word: furore
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...news that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) destroyed two videotapes in 2005 has caused more furor than the suspected contents of the tapes themselves. The tapes likely contained footage of torture or other forms of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment given legitimacy under the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation” regime. But rather than focus on who authorized the contents of the tapes, critics have focused on the CIA cover...
...project to translate the Dead Sea Scrolls, esteemed biblical scholar John Strugnell was under pressure to speed up the Scrolls' publication. In an interview, Strugnell, who had started studying the Scrolls four decades earlier at age 23, called Judaism a "horrible religion" and "Christian heresy." In the furor that followed, his family disclosed he was battling manic depression and alcoholism. Though he was the first editor to include Jewish scholars in the translation project--and he insisted he was not anti-Semitic--Strugnell was fired and irreparably discredited...
...American director, a bit of a cult figure himself in Europe, regretted that the real message of transcendental meditation, which he calls an "ancient eternal knowledge verified by Western science," was being lost in the furor. "Mankind was not made to suffer," he said. "We are all one. Bliss is our nature ... But somehow tonight this beautiful gift has gotten perverted. Let's march boldly toward a bright and shining future!" The strangeness of the whole affair was not lost on film students in the audience, one of whom caught it on film . At the very least, the evening...
...Obey's bold move has drawn an immediate indignant reaction from the right, which is fuming that soldiers in the field could be left in the lurch when the current funding runs out. Obey welcomed the furor. "To me that means the message got out just a little bit," Obey said. "The main point is that this war has been the worst foreign policy disaster going back to the war of 1812 and I say the war of 1812 because that's the last war where we actually lost territory. We have ruined our influence in the Middle East...
...sexual assault nurse." On Bowen's behalf, protesters demonstrated outside the Lincoln courthouse, and a petition, which Bowen signed, circulated on the Internet to change Nebraska law. Because of the publicity surrounding the case, Judge Cheuvront declared a mistrial during jury selection, accusing Bowen of inciting public furor over her case. "Ms. Bowen and her friends hoped to intimidate this court and interfere with the selection of a fair and impartial jury," he wrote in his July 12 decision...