Word: strife
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...particularly when it comes to fulfilling the expectations of a populace impatient to see political power translated into a more equitable distribution of resources. "People have suffered so much that they now expect the opposite," says Harry Gwala, a senior member of Mandela's African National Congress in strife-torn Natal province. "But we can't perform miracles...
...says during his final years at Harvard, the Law School's primary concern was not with diversity, but with ending the strife within its increasingly polarized faculty. The diversity effort, rather than becoming a victim of opposition, "fell in the cracks," he says...
...ultimately, the continuing strife led the council to alter radically its bureaucratic structure in what seemed a desperate attempt to set its house in order and to put service ahead of scandal...
Returnees say they see a new Harvard, one which is more free of the tension and strife which tainted their undergraduate careers and the world at the time...
...Somalia now poses a test case for the ability of the U.N. to damp down the internecine wars, actual and threatened, that have burst out since the end of the cold war. Are the suffering people of Bosnia less deserving of help? Then maybe even some of the strife-torn republics of the former Soviet Union? Perhaps -- if the Somalia mission can actually find a way to bring permanent order and stability to the country. But if it fails, the U.N., and the U.S., will have demonstrated their impotence more clearly than ever...