Word: problem
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...strange, then, to find this silence so regularly broken by screams and sirens and shots. But the problem with the Temple Mount is that it is so holy that it transcends politics. The pilgrims drawn into and around this sacred area include some of the most religious Muslims and Jews--precisely the people who are least likely to believe that there is any worldly solution to the question of who should have sovereignty over God's Mount. It is a question that some of the young mullahs and rabbis who study in the shadow of the Mount sometimes feel...
...should be no surprise that it has been impossible to find an expression in ink that can solve the problem. For much of the past seven years, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have been creeping close to agreement on many issues, but not this one. When Israeli right-winger Ariel Sharon visited the site two weeks ago in a bid to boost his political support and reassert Israeli rights to the land, Arabs saw it as an act of such political arrogance that it could only trigger an outburst. In what Arabs call the "Aqsa intifadeh," the uprising of al-Aqsa...
...problem is that the U.S. hasn't come to grips with the fact that in a fast-changing world, mail delivery is better run as a competitive business than as a government monopoly. While many countries have privatized their postal systems, the USPS has a foot stuck in each world. It is a semiprivate corporation with a lumbering government bureaucracy. It is run by a board of governors made up not of crack chief executives but of a folksy blend of local politicians, small-town business leaders and federal bureaucrats. The board has no postal experience, and Postmaster General William...
...course. The problem is that these days there are plenty of more cost-effective ways to battle rain, heat or gloom of night...
...presented her husband Thomas with a healthy boy. The birth, she explained, happened quickly and dramatically. Her water broke, an ambulance came to take her to a hospital in Akron, and she left the facility almost immediately because of a tuberculosis scare. Thomas Bica was overjoyed. The only problem was, unknown to him and to almost anyone else, Michelle Bica had not been pregnant...