A nation-wide furor erupted, led by the country's robustly independent media — prompting then-President Mwai Kibaki to veto the bill as "unaffordable and unconstitutional".
Tom Daschle, the Senate majority leader and a Democrat from South Dakota, started the furor by delivering a wide-ranging critique of Mr. Bush's foreign policy in a question-and-answer session with Gannett newspapers on Wednesday.
Its Facebook page has almost 32,000 members, and the internet is still rocking with WFM-shopper furor, union opposition, and wide-ranging political punditry.
In an otherwise slow news cycle before the holidays, the furor surrounding the show exposed wide political and social rifts in the country and stocked cable news programs for days.
This latest furor reveals just how deep and wide the gulf is between the progressive image Canadian media projects abroad and the actual feelings of Canadians here at home.
It was a rival, Barclays, that set off an international furor when it admitted to a wide-ranging conspiracy to manipulate the London interbank offered rate, commonly known as Libor, which is the benchmark for countless interest rate determinations and an estimated $450 trillion in derivative contracts.
It was unclear if the marine's release could help defuse the furor in Japan over the case, which had led to wide questioning of the military alliance with the United States and the presence of more than 40,000 American troops here.
And the furor over the Next Media deal is emblematic of wider concerns about the media's ability to play a watchdog role in Asia.
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Tuesday sought to move past the political furor over Operation Fast and Furious, the disputed Arizona gun trafficking investigation, to the wider problem of the flow of American firearms to Mexican drug cartels — and what he portrayed as roadblocks members of Congress have thrown up to stemming that flow.
In the United States, imagine if Seattle wide receiver Golden Tate had acknowledged he did not catch the desperation pass thrown by Russell Wilson that caused a furor during Monday night's N.F.L. game and was the catalyst for the league's reaching an agreement with its locked-out referees.
