Word: furore
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...poets are Randolph Henry Ash (Jeremy Northam), a 19th century literary light with a famously serene marriage, and Christabel LaMotte (Jennifer Ehle), a less renowned word magician. Imagine an affair between Robert Browning and Christina Rossetti and the scandal that would have rocked the 1860s--or the literary furor it might stoke today if the news were finally to come to light. That's the notion that drives two modern scholars, the American Roland (Aaron Eckhart) and the British Maud (Gwyneth Paltrow), deep into a long-submerged cache of love letters and finally into their own furtive embrace...
...press conference hosted by Britain's Conservative Party. "Fraud can therefore lie hidden within the system, undetected and untraced." With memories still fresh of the 1999 collapse of the previous European Commission under allegations of fraud and incompetence - few were ever proved - Andreasen's accusation whipped up a furor in British politics, especially among Euro-skeptic Tories...
...this subjugation: female circumcision, practiced on 2 million girls a year, most of them in 28 African countries but also in immigrant communities in Europe and the U.S. The U.N. appointed her in 1997 as a special ambassador to seek an end to this practice, after she caused a furor by suddenly revealing her own experience to a reporter. Talking about such intimate personal details is excruciating for her, but she vows she won't stop. Sustaining her now is not only the power of the spirit but also her five-year-old son, Aleeke, whom she calls "the light...
...Lost amidst all the flag-waving and God-avowing furor was the fact that Goodwin may have had a point. "As a matter of common sense, a court should struggle not to reach this result," says Jack Balkin, a professor at Yale Law School. "But the reasoning isn?t crazy. It?s technically correct." Vincent Blasi, a law professor at Columbia University and the University of Virginia, agreed. "If you?re being true to the idea that government must not take positions on religious questions, then the Ninth Circuit opinion is quite persuasive," he says. "There is a powerful desire...
During the furor over the Summers-West spat, Gates, along with other top scholars in the department, was reported to be disappointed that Summers failed to begin his presidency with a strong statement in support of the department and of diversity in the larger University community...