Word: uproars
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Summers gave a thoughtful speech in a church and incited an uproar. An entirely fact-based website was created to fight bias, and professors united to battle the scourge of censorship. Yet, when physical violence and direct acts of censorship are used in the opposite direction, few seem to have a problem. It’s a double standard that should horrify everyone...
Pipes’ interest in the political climate at Harvard was piqued last spring by the uproar surrounding a Commencement Day speech whose title, “American Jihad,” had sparked angry petition drives and drew national press attention...
...elections without Haider, support last week fell to 12%, down from a high of 27% almost three years ago. What happened? The party may have been a victim of its own success. Six months after it sprang to prominence in 1999, Haider relinquished the leadership because of the uproar created by his xenophobic pronouncements. But when he returned to Carinthia, where he is governor, he left behind in Vienna a group of ministers who - together with their coalition partners, the conservative People's Party of Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel - managed to accomplish a few things. They slashed spending, briefly...
...call the All-Star Game, which was tied in the 11th inning, because both teams had run out of pitchers. He was booed in Milwaukee, where he was once a hero (for recruiting the Brewers away from Seattle). Fans were outraged, call-in radio shows were in an uproar and a few days later Selig promised never to make that mistake again. And while the institution of baseball can easily recover from such a bad call, Selig's career...
...answer, at least in Salt Lake City, was that some of them were foolish to think their knavery would go undetected. A day after the pairs final, a French judge admitted she had been pressured to favor the Russians' klutzy turn over the Canadians' sublime skate. The ensuing uproar, which resulted in the awarding of gold medals to both teams, cast a pall on the International Skating Union and the high-strung community of ice divas. But until now, who imagined...