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RUPERT MURDOCH may not be America's favorite billionaire (that would be Cuddly Warren or Nebbishy Bill), but in Britain, he's a real crowd displeaser. So it was a nervy step to buy the U.K.'s most popular soccer team, Manchester United, and thus earn the ire of all those British soccer fans. The $1 billion purchase brought on predictably apoplectic headlines from the British tabs--including MURDOCH MOST FOUL and GREED 4, HONESTY 1--and threats from fan associations and former players that they will stop supporting the team. The kerfuffle is in sharp contrast to the blase...
Over a 14 month time span, downloads from Lau'spage accounted for 12 percent of all datatransmitted over the server, drawing the ire ofnetwork administrators who said Lau was violatinga policy prohibiting commercial use of Harvard'snetwork...
DIED. SAM YORTY, 88, maverick former mayor of Los Angeles; in the city he governed during the stormy '60s. Yorty, a master at grandstanding, flip-flopped from liberal Democrat to hard-line conservative. Urging "integration without inundation," he inspired the most ire with his racial views. After three turbulent terms, he was unseated by Tom Bradley, the city's first black mayor...
Many events and trends over the last four years have annoyed me to no end, but one letter to the editors of The Crimson published earlier this semester raised far more ire in me than its scant two paragraphs should have afforded. The letter carried that high pomposity and undeniable self-importance so prized in these pages, but it did not tackle any of the issues our generation of Harvard students have rallied around...
...deaths of dozens of baby rats aboard the space shuttle Columbia wasn?t warning enough, the crew of Mir risked the ire of animal rights activists Monday -- or rather, amphibian and mollusk rights -- when their latest cargo came in. For the newest residents of the Russian space station are 15 two-year-old Oriental newts, and ?about? 80 snails -- Mir biologist Georgy Samarin being unsure of the precise number of gastropod cosmonauts...