Mr Lansley's plans might have caused less of a rumpus with more explicit warning.
That will be a fight far fiercer than the rumpus over affirmative action five years ago.
The rumpus has rumbled on ever since with each side taking increasingly-entrenched stands, culminating in Friday's legal action.
An Israeli army jeep idled by, briefly surveyed the rumpus, and drove on.
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Leaked recordings of telephone chats between an intermediary and some of India's most powerful businesspeople have caused a headline-hogging rumpus.
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The public went off contentedly shopping, thinking the matter was all but settled, and with that, the wild rumpus began.
Niall Ferguson, the historian at Harvard, has managed to stir up something of a rumpus over the past couple of days.
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Or, thanks to Taujel, in the rumpus room of your own hacienda.
If Fight the Big Bull can continue to make risk-taking sound this appealing, it'll be hard to keep the rumpus confined to Richmond.
Perhaps most strikingly, actual politicians rarely create such a rumpus just as the likes of Mr Hitchens are bigger draws at public debates than mere ministers.
In any event, Iran sounds well pleased with the current rumpus.
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In recent weeks this technique has caused a rumpus on both sides of the Atlantic, however, because it has been deployed in an apparently underhand way.
The latest effort by the bank's governor, Jean-Claude Trichet, to streamline the bloated institution has caused such a rumpus that even France's finance minister has intervened.
The occasion will be the opening of an exhibition of work by artists short-listed for the 1997 Turner Prize but the rumpus will not be a piece of performance art.
The rumpus may also have alerted more people to the fact that the parliament has acquired some power, even though it has not, hitherto, shown that it has the oomph to exercise it.
And surrounding the alien rumpus, the filmmakers have built an unexpectedly sincere salute to the awesome responsibilities of today's U.S. Navy as well as to the heroic work of veterans who came before.
But then you watch what has happened in New York the past week and a half with Jeremy Lin and you see how this city still can deliver a national rumpus like none other.
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