LATE last spring a controversy flared briefly in the letters section of the London Review of Books.

Charges Over Television The controversy, which had subsided in recent weeks, has flared anew on television.

It's time Ryan was called on the carpet to explain these charges and others that circulated long before this controversy flared.

Now controversy about a treatment approach that allows for some controlled drinking has flared again.

More recently, an old controversy has flared again over what is known as the Ashbourne portrait, which the Folger once considered a portrait of Shakespeare.

The plaque was still at the foundry when controversy flared again, shortly before its scheduled installation on the monument last month.

But the controversy flared on Navajo and English-language talk radio and in regional newspapers.

A controversy has flared around Winnie Mandela, the anti-apartheid figure, over allegations that her bodyguards abducted and harmed four young men in a black township.

He added that a controversy once flared about whether the real Mary and her lamb lived in North Wales or in Sterling, Mass.

In recent years, a controversy has flared over the tax exemptions granted non-profit hospitals.