Word: furore
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...Sally Baron, 71, of northern Wisconsin, and Gertrude M. Jones, 81, of Mandeville, La. Obituaries for both women contained requests that money be sent to any organization working for the removal of Bush from office. And in Jefferson County, Colo., West Jefferson Middle School teacher Martha Swisher sparked a furor by wearing a HE'S NOT MY PRESIDENT button on her coat during a sixth-grade field trip. Republicans in Colorado's state legislature honored the family that lodged the complaint; the teacher now wears a lapel pin to class that features an American flag and a peace sign...
...nailing Jackson this time because he's thought by some legal analysts to be ready to bring other children to claim abuse and because the 12-year-old at the center of the case is, according to Sneddon, prepared to testify. A law enacted in the wake of the furor over the 1993 settlement makes it more difficult for an alleged perpetrator to pay off his victim in exchange for squelching his testimony. That should keep Jackson from offering money to his accuser and sandbagging the case...
Exit The Strong Man MALAYSIA Pugnacious Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad stepped down last week after 22 years in office and, as ever, the 77-year-old went out swinging. Despite weeks of international criticism sparked by remarks that were widely seen as anti-Semitic, Mahathir has remained unrepentant. The furor, which included what President George W. Bush said was a personal rebuke when the two met at a summit in Bangkok (something Mahathir denied), began when the former physician told a group of Islamic leaders meeting in Kuala Lumpur that "Jews...
Critic Fumento hasn't let up. In a column syndicated by Scripps Howard last March, he took a penetrating look at the Beverly Hills furor. "Can you believe a California high school has suffered a shark attack?" he began. "How so? These sharks wear suits. Their names: paralegal Erin Brockovich and Attorney Ed Masry...
...Robert Smith, a quiet-spoken retired structural engineer, also sharply questioned banking group Abbey National's board. Abbey last year lost $1.6 billion, halved dividends but paid golden handshakes totaling some $9 million to five departing directors. "It's scandalous," Smith says. "It was a reward for failure." The furor is largely a British phenomenon. On the Continent, pay and compensation packages tend to be lower and not subject to the same public scrutiny. German companies don't even need to publish details of executive remuneration, although pressure is growing on firms to do so. In France, a law passed...