Word: strife
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...second letter, dated July 14, 2005, dealt with an issue far less lethal than the Hutu-Tutsi strife. But again, Harper’s words would resound long after the ink had dried...
...Reiss is unambivalent about his respect for the Lampoon, but he says the hallowed institution had its fair share of internal strife...
...Upadhyay, who teaches at Indiana University in the U.S. and writes in English, doesn't ignore the violence and political strife of his native country?he just keeps it in the background with controlled plots and measured prose. The title story takes place immediately after the 2001 massacre of the royal family by Crown Prince Dipendra. While the country is thrown into confusion and grief, cab driver Ganga is confronted with a more personal upheaval?learning that his brother is gay. In Supreme Pronouncements, another story, when the student organizer Suresh is thrown in jail for writing a provocative editorial...
...Although the ministry of tourism does not measure political tourism, it says the number of foreign tourists visiting Venezuela grew by 17 percent between 2001 and 2005, despite political strife and national strikes during that period. "There is something happening here," said Renee Kasinsky, 62, a professor of sociology in Boston. "I went to Cuba when it was 1962, two years after the revolution. And it feels like temporarily the clock has turned back...
...have perished ... Last week, in an effort to halt the tribal carnage, 3,000 troops of a five-nation West African peacekeeping force began to fan out in besieged Monrovia. Taylor, challenging their legitimacy, vowed to kill them all ... Taylor is unimpressed by outside efforts to calm the civil strife. 'I am not going to roll over and play dead,' he told TIME. 'This is an attempt to rescue Doe. A peacekeeping force means all sides agree. We have not agreed. If we're attacked, the price will be expensive. The world is going to remember.'" Read more at timearchive.com...