Word: rifted
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...Undergraduate Council and last Sunday’s dinner with new members of Phi Beta Kappa all represent a willingness to get to know the student body and to solicit student opinion. However, Summers’ actions to date are by no means sufficient to bridge the student/administration rift that currently divides our campus...
...studio's website said, "It's time to quit while we're ahead," leaving plenty of room for speculation about what really doomed the hit factory. Martin's music has reportedly made him a multimillionaire (he refuses to discuss his wealth). Maybe a clash of egos caused the rift. Or maybe Martin had chewed and spit out all the bubble-gum pop he had in him. Fiction, he says, but typically he didn't quash the talk...
...Clinton was always the elephant in the room of the Gore campaign, from the very beginning. Even back in '99, when Gore first announced his candidacy, and went on network news shows to discuss his campaign, he was asked primarily about Clinton. By the end of the campaign, the rift between them became more apparent; days and days would go by without Gore ever mentioning Clinton's name...
...Tumulty: It's an interesting question, in and of itself, which will be debated for years in an historical context. It's also important for the Democratic party: How does this rift, and Al Gore's loss, affect the party and future campaigns? Does the party need to go back to traditional concerns, in the spirit of the Gore campaign, or should the party hew to a Clinton-inspired centrist philosophy...
...tensions that were building between students and administrators would eventually lead to the 1969 University Hall takeover. The Vietnam War was tearing a rift through the center of Harvard and the nation as a whole...