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...seven-year-old Atlanta boy will probably forget one day what he did to earn the Rev. Arthur Allen Jr.'s ire. But the memory of the punishment that followed will surely live on. Police say three of Allen's flock, heeding the pastor's teaching, held the boy down in the House of Prayer church while a fourth whipped him with a switch. On Feb. 28, when the boy told a teacher he was in pain, she found welts on his body...
...your masters - the member states" has rankled some members of the world body. Israel, for example, bristled when she said it used excessive force in the Palestinian territories. Russia responded angrily to her criticism of its role in Chechnya. On a visit to Beijing last month she drew the ire of Chinese officials by rebuking them for their country's use of forced prison labor. "You have to be prepared to stand up to bullies," she says. Full Story...
...only did this mistake increase the ire of the North Korean leaders toward the United States, but most likely it was the driving force in their decision to delay their talks with South Korean leaders scheduled for this week. This development is a move that South Korean officials called an embarrassment for their president, who was recently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his extraordinary hard work and diplomatic determination to fashion a peace declaration for the Korean peninsula...
Bush started out on the wrong track by appointing Gale R. Norton and former Sen. John D. Ashcroft to the posts of Interior Secretary and Attorney General. Norton has earned the ire of conservation groups concerned about her environmental record as Colorado's attorney general and her advocacy of oil exploration in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. And the Ashcroft appointment has justifiably angered those who oppose the nominee's past efforts against desegregation in Missouri, his hardline position on abortion, his willingness to blur the line between church and state and his disgraceful interventions to block two Clinton appointees...
...however, the new GOP majority implemented a six-year term limit for committee chairmen. And what seemed like a good idea six long years ago is raising ire among some senior party members. Henry Hyde, Republican of Illinois, only grudgingly departed as chairman of the House Ways and Means committee and moved to the head of the foreign relations panel. Hyde argued unsuccessfully that he should remain in his leadership position to make up for time he missed during President Clinton's impeachment trial...