Word: uproarous
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Defection sounds like a bad word, but in reality the runners may still be patriotic as ever. They just moved on to greener pastures. When the commonwealth gold medalist, Stephen Cherono, moved to Qatar, there was uproar in Kenya, especially when he, as Saif Saeed Shaheen, went on to beat his former teammates at the Paris athletics championships. More recently, Bernard Lagat became a U.S. citizen, again amid further protest. Now, many wonder whether these athletes should be allowed to compete for their new host nations...
...figurehead was widely criticized for equating divestment from Israel to one of many “actions that are anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent.” And, as we are familiar with the reaction to Summers’ controversial comments—and the uproar they can stir—a debate was borne, inciting some serious discussion about a controversial and complicated issue. Though we disagreed with Summers’ conflation of divestment with anti-Semitism, the silver-lining was that it ultimately encouraged educated discourse, one of the foremost goals of academia...
...uproar is also, partly, about pride. No one likes to be labeled failing. Teachers "are focused on making sure that their school doesn't make the watch list ... so that their communities aren't shamed," says Linda Nelson, president of the Iowa State Education Association...
...March 10 at 9:36 p.m., an e-world uproar started on a blog created by members of the Class of 2009 via the internet technology of Myspace.com. In a post titled “how not to be a bitch on myspace.com,” a member of the pre-frosh class who asked to be known as “D-Val” railed against Kate, another group member who asked that her full name not be used...
Despite the uproar last week, White House officials insisted President Bush has no intention of withdrawing Bolton's nomination. The President stoutly called Bolton the "right man at the right time" to badger a sclerotic U.N. into reform. "There is going to be a more forceful approach in the coming days to make this a debate about the United Nations and not John Bolton," says a senior White House official. "He has rough edges, but that's what you want right...