Word: stirs
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...army - his forces clashed violently with U.S. soldiers in Baghdad last weekend, after which his supporters warned the U.S. to keep its troops out of the eastern Baghdad slum known as Sadr City. U.S. commanders have been reluctant to move directly against Moqtada al-Sadr, fearing that this would stir up a confrontation with his supporters. But the radicals are clearly staking out their turf as the political day of reckoning approaches, and were involved in violent clashes with supporters of the moderate clerics at Najaf on Tuesday. A series of roadside bomb attack on British forces in Basra...
...that plays into bin Laden’s nefarious interests. Bin Laden was not simply a religious fanatic dedicated to the destruction of pluralistic and democratic Western society, even though it may have been politically expedient and emotionally cathartic to characterize him that way. Instead, bin Laden endeavored to stir up turmoil in the Middle East that would lead to the establishment of additional Islamic theocracies in the region...
...supposedly too tight tutu is causing a stir at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater. The theater fired ballerina ANASTASIA VOLOCHKOVA last week because, officials said, she was too hefty for her male partners to lift. Volochkova, who is 5 ft. 6 in. and 109 lbs., according to the New York Times, called the Bolshoi's story "a myth" and said she had switched from ice cream to spinach and was as fit as ever. Volochkova's plunging necklines and friendships with rich, powerful men have made her a pop icon in Russia. "You have such a high opinion of yourself...
...Jimmy Swaggart. After moving to Houston at age 17, Gilley worked in construction until a meeting with Jerry Lee made Gilley think, "If he can do it, why can't I?" ("The Killer," as Jerry Lee was known, famously pulled a roll of cash from his pocket to stir young Gilley.) But it wasn't easy. For more than a decade, he played at a string of honky-tonks, earning a reputation as a solid journeyman pianist, albeit a clone of the cousin who had inspired him. "He was just a plain, old-fashioned, down-to-earth guy in those...
...repatriation" rules that enabled police to detain migrant workers with little cause, and ordered city cops out of their stations and into their neighborhoods. The reform drive, Public Security Minister Zhou Yongkang said in a July speech, should "resolutely stop malignant violations that offend the heavens and reason and stir up public indignation...