Word: stirred
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...admiral. The determination to decapitate Aidid's faction is considered an American interpretation of the U.N. resolution calling for the capture of the Somalis responsible for the ambush of the Pakistanis. A total of 35 peacekeepers have died since May, none of them American. "The U.S. is quick to stir up trouble with air strikes," said a Pakistani peacekeeper, "but it is my men and other Third World soldiers who always draw the tough assignments on the ground...
...whose investigation began 18 months ago, planted an undercover agent inside the white-supremacist community; one of their civilian informants even posed as a minister of the Church of the Creator. The agent was allegedly told by the plotters that killing the pastor of the A.M.E. church would "stir the masses," that "half-assed revolutions" don't work, and that killing black leaders was the way to start the race war. One skinhead said that "an $ average dumb nigger" should be slain so the group could bond with blood. The violent rhetoric seemed at odds with some of the members...
...stir was triggered by 2,000 advance copies of the first 123 pages of McGinniss's book, which Simon & Schuster had been distributing to whet booksellers' interest. They contained a statement about McGinniss's extensive research, adding, "Some thoughts and dialogue attributed to figures in this narrative were created by the author, based on such research and his knowledge of the relevant people, places and events." When questioned, McGinniss admits that his subject granted him no interviews for the book; he also allows that he regularly inferred in his narrative what Kennedy might have been thinking. "I absolutely did that...
...Zooropa" is artistically exhilarating, the experimental cutting edge. Most bands would become comfortable upon reaching U2's level of success, and churn out more of the same old stuff. U2, however, has decided to stir up the familiar components and throw in a few new elements. Consider it an experiment to see if the public can accept a changing...
...critical of what he sees as Republican attempts to stir up racial animosity from the "southern strategy" to "Welfare Queens", arguing that conservatives have a particular burden to be progressive on civil rights because of their mixed record...