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...Czechoslovakia before World War II,Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrevhas caused an uproar in the former Soviet Union. In remarks Tuesday at a defense and foreign policy council meeting, Kozyrev said that Russia will use its armed might to defend Russian nationals abroad. The statement immediately drew the ire of many in Ukraine, the Baltic states and other former Soviet republics with large populations of ethnic Russians. The states were quick to interpret the remarks as an indication ofRussian imperialist aspirations, but Kozyrev on Thursday professed bewilderment at the fuss, saying "What are the army and navy for if they...
...independent ombudsman for the American buying public, CR has always attracted some ire and resentment-and not only from manufacturers. In 1939 a House committee branded Consumers Union subversive, thanks to the magazine's perceived antibusiness bias. Though such witch-hunting may seem laughable now, executives at CR and Consumers Union are not smiling at what some detractors and publishing analysts are saying about the magazine today: 1) its methods of testing and evaluating products are sometimes flawed and less objective than they appear; 2) the magazine has evolved from a neutral reporter into an advocate of politically correct...
...seemingly innocuous revamping of Cambridge's public health care system has raised the ire of several city councillors, who say they were not informed of the restructuring by City Manager Robert W. Healy...
...sure that Brent McGuire's recent editorial ("Coeducational No More," Dec. 13, 1994) raised quite a few eyebrows and voices across the Harvard campus. It raised mine, too, and reminded me of why I never wanted to write for Peninsula. As a conservative myself, it raises my ire to see such views sprawled across the campus press. For many will walk away from such an article with the impression that this is the conservative view, when...
Anyway, what really got my ire was three separate polls taken over the past week in football, women's soccer and men's hockey...