Jack's return stirs up issues for Erin, their daughter Nicky and the rest of the Reagan family.
While these could not be laid directly at the door of UMNO, hotheads in the party may well have taken their cue from what non-Muslims see as a deliberate attempt to stir up ethnic/religious issues for political gain.
"So far we don't have the big political movement that helped stir up class issues in the 1930s," said Alan Brinkley, a historian at Columbia, referring to the populist firebrands Huey P. Long and Father Charles Coughlin who put pressure on Roosevelt.
But Republicans hope that Democrats will be seen as just as beholden to Enron, and that the Democrats' drive to stir up the issue politically will backfire.
And with only a few days left before the Iowa caucuses, Mr. Romney's campaign does not want any suggestion that it is trying to stir up the issue of Mr. Obama's citizenship.
However, before any of that happens, the BBC is bracing itself for the release of the full set of documents, emails and evidence from the Pollard review in about mid February, which is set to stir up the issue all over again.
She calls the "don't ask, don't tell" argument a smokescreen for antimilitary bias and says these universities were so cowed by the antiwar protests of the '60s that they would do anything not to stir up the same issues again.
Arriaga suspects the government sought to keep Chiapas off the Pope's agenda in order not to stir up latent indigenous issues or highlight the extreme poverty that still pervades the state where Zapatista rebels still control pockets of territory, 22 years after their uprising that drew attention to centuries of discrimination and exploitation suffered by the indigenous population there.
By playing political, economic, and cultural themes across such a vast area of scarce resources, we stir up the larger issue: can "commoditization of resources" itself be sustained in regions of such scarcity as these, or do these regions call the bluff of the inexorable spread of the market economy?
Thanks to an aggressive effort to educate voters, stir up controversy and take the issue to court, progressive activists beat back the Republican Party's efforts to reduce the turnout of young voters, African Americans and Latinos in November's elections.
