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...only reinforces this feeling. No doubt even Mahathir has friends and sycophants who are telling him, "Mo, you're just a victim of political correctness. What is this world coming to when a simple Prime Minister can't say the Jews control everything without people making a ridiculous fuss...
...novels, and the settings are not necessarily South African. In 1980, when Coetzee's masterpiece Waiting for the Barbarians was published, I was in the U.S., living among people who took it as a surreal cowboy story set on some nameless frontier and wondered what all the fuss was about. For me, and for many white South Africans, it was an unbearably painful allegory about our daily lives and moral dilemmas, a book that engaged on a psychic level so deep and compelling that reading it left one dazed and hypnotized...
...Roxas Boulevard, a bayside avenue named for former President Manuel Roxas. The new road is called President Diosdado Macapagal Avenue to honor another former leader, father of current President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. But when the road's budget went from $9.1 million to $20 million, there was a public fuss and the entire board of the government agency in charge of the project was forced to go on involuntary leave. That's no way to honor the President's father: some are now suggesting the road be renamed Central Boulevard...
...owner of Friendship, a folksy restaurant in a working-class Munich neighborhood, where Wiese and his gang used to provide security for Direct Democracy, a radical right-wing coalition that held meetings in a back room. "Sometimes they'd get a hundred people and the speakers would raise a fuss about foreigners. They didn't like what was going on down at Jakobsplatz," Klein says, referring to the site of the new synagogue. After police began showing up in large numbers to monitor the meetings last year, Klein stopped renting the room to the group...
...They have the best equipment and technology, and a power shortage can make such a big fuss in the United States. Now I am sure it will take them years to fix the electricity in Iraq." ALI SAGHBAL, a Baghdad power-station worker...