Word: strife
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...year after year position themselves as good caretakers who will vigilantly ensure that past programs continue, keeping the council in cruise control has its own grave risk: it leads to a jaded campus who see the council as out of touch and unable to effect change. This causes internal strife within the Undergraduate Council, and it is very difficult to recover from...
...says. Across the country, people are amazingly resilient. They may still identify as Malaitans or Guadalcanalese, rather than as Solomon Islanders, but they're united by their miserable circumstances. They have not come to rely on, or even expect much from, government. People did not go hungry during the strife. Traditional communities remain strong, and the civil-society movement is gaining influence. In the Solomons today, a little good goes a long way. Perhaps the fools, drunks and thieves of Parliament will end up in Rove prison and young leaders will take charge. "If there is a struggle anywhere...
...good for their country. Meanwhile, South Koreans, Indonesians and Japanese are not: 48%, 45% and 39%, respectively, think another Bush Administration will be bad news. When it comes to Iraq, Asians seem universally pessimistic. By as much as 2 to 1, respondents fear Bush will fail to stabilize the strife-torn country. In Japan, one of America's most important allies in the war, only 2.3% are confident that Bush can successfully win the peace...
...days later, on Oct. 31, when order was finally restored by more than 10,000 People's Armed Police and other military personnel, 148 people were dead, according to local journalists who saw an internal document circulated among high-level bureaucrats in Henan-making this China's worst ethnic strife in years. "In all my life and that of my ancestors, we've never experienced anything like this," says a Muslim surnamed Hai, who along with other villagers discovered a decapitated Hui corpse on Monday. "Our villages will never be the same," agrees a Han farmer surnamed Geng, who says...
...week, protests by thousands of disenfranchised farmers and others have unsettled the provinces of Anhui, Inner Mongolia, Sichuan and Zhejiang. Referring to the recent spate of unrest, national Public Security Minister Zhou Yongkang was quoted in the official media on Monday pleading for calm. After last week's ethnic strife, calm is precisely what China's leaders need...