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...Harvard audience watching the current touring production at the Colonial, for example, the tale seems eerily familiar. Wasn't this just the subject of a national uproar? A juvenile, branded a criminal, overcomes unsurmountable obstacles through strength of character to attain ephemeral renown, only to have the dreadful past arise like a demon to snatch it away...
Evoking what some see as shades of Adolf Hitler's rhetoric regarding Germans living in 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...
Still, the uproar which has thrown the University in the center of intense media spotlight--ranging from the New York Times to National Public Radio--may now at last subside...
...month-long conflict overfishing and conservationin Canadian waters, Canadian patrol boats allegedly tried to snip the nets off two Spanish trawlers, and by some accounts actually boarded the vessels. Canadian officials, who have stopped European boats recently to prevent overfishing of turbot, flatly denied the charges. Still, the uproar caused international talks over the issue in Brussels to be suspended for a day. Behind the scenes,TIME Ottawa contributor Gavin Scottsays, cooler heads at the negotiating table expect a full resolution as soon as Monday...
...abortion-protest case, submitted an article to the review that justified killing abortion doctors. The piece was approved and scheduled for publication--until the day Hill murdered two people outside a Pensacola, Florida, abortion clinic; then the article was yanked, and Hirsh was fired several months later. The uproar caught Regent Law School dean J. Nelson Happy by surprise: "If the student editors decided to publish this, I didn't feel it was appropriate to stop them. It didn't strike me as something inherently mischievous. Then I got a call from the New York Times...