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...Edward Said, 67, Columbia University professor, literary critic and prominent advocate for Palestinian independence; in New York City. A fierce critic of Israel and American Middle East policy, the Jerusalem-born author and scholar advocated a single, binational state for "dispossessed" Palestinians. Though he generally repudiated terrorism, he drew ire for his refusal to condemn specific violent acts by Palestinians. Still, the author of Orientalism, which argued that Western writers had demeaned Arabs and Asians with stereotyping, lived most of his life in the U.S., married a Quaker and for a time wrote music reviews for the Nation, acknowledging that...
According to Adams’ website, the controversial book drew the ire of radio host Rush Limbaugh and columnist John...
...held in March?and in the two previous elections China's attempts to influence the outcome have boomeranged. After China launched its missiles in '96?prompting the U.S. to rush two aircraft carriers to the region?voters gave Lee a landslide victory. Four years later China directed its ire at presidential candidate Chen Shui-bian, whose Democratic Progressive Party sprang from the pro-independence movement. Beijing branded him a "dangerous" separatist and threatened "a blood-soaked battle" to reunite with Taiwan. Chen was a long shot until then, but ended up winning. "China has learned to shut up," says Emile...
...Treasury Secretary fly to Asia to press a nation that is running a massive trade surplus with the U.S. to revalue its currency?and then come home with nothing to show for his trip but soothing waffle. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the target of U.S. ire was Japan; now it's China, from which Treasury Secretary John Snow has just returned with assurances that the Chinese will soon show "flexibility" in their currency policies. For a while, trade tensions with Japan were a focus of U.S. domestic politics and threatened to damage relations with one of Washington...
Early in the half, Fisher drew the (loud) ire of Crimson coach Tim Wheaton when she declined to play a long ball toward the corner flag...