Word: furore
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...answer." For the past 48 hours, stories have been breaking in great shuddering waves; one profile explores her beloved father's criminal record (he was a bootlegger before he was a fantastically successful beer distributor), which followed multiple accounts of her half sister's resentment of her and a furor over her husband's inability to account for how many houses they own. All this comes as she prepares to step out center stage in Minneapolis and help her husband woo the female voters who so far aren't on his team. "I'll show them what I'm about...
...This seems like a pipe dream now. After the furor caused by America's preemptive invasion of Iraq, it's hard to imagine the U.S. mustering the credibility necessary for a Kosovo-like humanitarian intervention for at least a generation. Sudan provides ready evidence of that. The International Criminal Court recently indicted Sudanese leader Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes in Darfur. Given America's post-Iraq reputation, some combination of European, Asian and African leadership would be needed to bring al-Bashir to justice, but even this is unlikely. On the same day that Karadzic was arrested...
...have urged a boycott of U.S. stores, and cars are sporting bumper stickers reading if you want to be respected, stay away. ''The blockade's message to Mexicans was 'We don't like you,' '' says Pablo Cuaron, president of COPARMEX-Juarez, a business association. ''Feelings have been hurt.'' The furor could have an impact on the NAFTA treaty, whose boosters have showcased the traditional harmony between border communities. ''Free trade? We've had it for years,'' says pawnbroker Saul Frank. ''The blockade's a step back.'' INS officials sought to pacify angry critics last week by no longer calling...
...Berlin. Once more, the government's aim was to win recognition of East Berlin as its capital and force Western countries to treat the Berlin Wall as an international border rather than a demarcation line in a city divided by a postwar agreement. The new rule created a diplomatic furor and led to strong protests from the U.S., Britain and France, which still have authority as the occupying powers in the Western part of the city. Some embassies even ordered their diplomats to take a circuitous route to West Berlin in order to avoid confrontations with the East German border...
...rights activists view the furor as yet another example of homophobia. "It shows bigotry," says Ryan Wilson, an activist with South Carolina's Pride Movement, a gay rights organization. "I don't want to be a pawn in someone's reelection campaign." In response to actions by the state tourism board, Wilson's group has decided to raise the $5,000 necessary to pay the advertising fee, and has adopted the slogan "South Carolina WILL...