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...construction of graduate-student housing on Cowperthwaite Street raised ire from surrounding residents in a meeting Friday morning, when they said they fear that the use of high-sulphur fuel may provoke a health crisis in the neighborhood...
...Book of Daniel (NBC, Fridays, 10 p.m. E.T.; debuts 9 p.m. E.T., Jan. 6) does not exactly lay out the welcome mat. Its content--did I forget to mention his sister-in-law's lesbian affair? his wife's martini habit? the adulterous bishops?--has already drawn the ire of the American Family Association (AFA), a conservative cultural watchdog group, which charged that the show "mocks Christianity." (Or that at least the promos do; the group had not yet seen, or requested, a screener from NBC.) NBC entertainment president Kevin Reilly says it's a funny but ultimately sincere family...
Still, while The Salient avoids directing its ire at members of the GLBT community themselves, its hostility to the BGLTSA, presumably as a consequence of the latter’s lefty leanings, is overt: an ad for The Salient asks, “Do you cringe involuntarily at acronyms like SLAM, BGLTSA and PETA...
...good. Lindsey Tan, a sophomore at UCSD, complained about the corny plot line and overabundance of close-ups. When she turned it on, “It was, like, immediately, genitals were in your face, all these genitals in your face.” The graphic footage arose the ire of the Associated Students of UCSD, which condemned the broadcast as “disrespectful, inappropriate, unnecessary, intentionally malicious, divisive and hurtful.” The council further chided the show for setting a bad example, citing a lack of prophylactics during coitus as evidence. York contests that his film...
...Their emphatic hellos had infuriated some, including, Stephen M. Fee ’07, a Crimson editor, who devoted his Sept. 29 rant in FM to Sovereign Bank’s talking man-advertisements. Fee claimed that the Square’s newest residents “drew his ire with unprecedented preposterousness.” Although Bensassi claims that the bank didn’t receive negative comments about its atypical advertising approach, many students have expressed disdain. “It was either us or the machine, and I’m glad man has come...