Word: rifted
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...whole country to progress," says Parouk Hussin, governor of an autonomous region of Muslim Mindanao established 13 years ago after his guerrilla group reached an agreement with the government. With peace talks between Manila and the MILF scheduled to restart within weeks, the government is trying to prevent a rift that would scupper the negotiations...
According to Saundra Graham, a longtime Riverside resident and former city councillor, the town-gown rift goes as far back as the 1950s, when the University began to look at possibilities for expansion in the area...
...Hampshire diocese shows no sign of backing down. And so traditionalists, who dominate the Anglican churches in the Third World, are likely to break Communion with the liberals. A promised commission report in a year on how to handle gay issues appears unlikely to prevent a rift. - By Helen Gibson Oil on Troubled Waters BELGIUM The E.U. sought to calm U.S. fears that a planned European military force would undermine NATO. At the end of a two-day summit, Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi...
...ultimately valuable debate about race and education in Boston Public Schools (BPS). Boston’s famously contentious busing program was a watershed when first instituted in 1974. The court order, issued by Judge Arthur W. Garrity, to racially integrate Boston’s public school system opened a rift along racial lines, the vestiges of which have haunted the city since; images of South Boston residents hurling bricks at school buses have remained etched in the city’s collective memory...
...outreach been confined to followers of other faiths. Perhaps his greatest disappointment has been the failure of his efforts to heal the rift with the Orthodox churches, particularly of Russia, which has remained staunchly opposed to any rapprochement and inclined to see Catholic overtures in Russia as an attempt to poach for souls. There again, however, some of the theologians around the pope may be inclined to see his outreach to the Orthodox as somewhat na?ve, given the theological chasm that divides the two churches on such basic issues as the papacy itself...