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...some favored elite. Consequently, the wholesale sell-off of Siberia has aroused great bitterness among Russians. "You own us now," says an official sarcastically. Ordinary people are frustrated by corrupt courts, by self-dealing and favoritism and by confiscatory taxes that force honest businesspeople to become cheaters. Increasingly, their ire is directed against the new order. When asked to name the greatest threat to Russia's wildlife, Vladimir Shetinin, the head of the Amba patrols, responds with one word: "Democracy." It is a widely shared opinion...
...course I heard plenty of sexist comments in high school and even said a few things that I was informed were sexist, but my ire was directed more at the P.C. police trying to stomp out anything that could be construed as sexist than at sexism itself. By the time I reached college, sexism--and for that matter, feminism--were things I was tired of hearing about. At a college where I believed, and still do, that things were fundamentally equal I did not see that there was all that much to complain about--that sexism was really a major...
Some of her critics believe Mother Angelica has become at least unintentionally subversive of her antifeminist goals by becoming a teaching authority in her own right. It is easy to see why she is. Her comforting manner, her reliance on traditional formulas and even her grandmotherly ire against "liberalism" appeal strongly to Catholics nostalgic for the old church of certainty. As she proudly proclaimed in her 1993 diatribe, hers is "the Catholicity of the simple and the poor and the elderly." And as Jesus taught, she added, woe to those who would tamper with it. --Reported by Richard N. Ostling/Irondale
...process, they forcibly herded students into a nearby residence hall. Their presence and actions drew the ire of many of the students at the predominantly Black college, who had also complained about racial insensitivity among police officers in the past...
...strangers to topical political controversy. Their two previous operatic collaborations, Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer, both set to elegant, literate librettos by poet Alice Goodman, tackled explosive subjects in unconventional ways. Nixon presented a surprisingly intimate, sympathetic portrait of the former President, while Klinghoffer roused the ire of some American Jews with its compassionate presentation of Palestinian suffering. Jordan, the team's new librettist, is a political activist whose lapidary vernacular libretto uses a catastrophic Los Angeles earthquake as a metaphor for the shattering power of love...