Word: strife
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...ministers getting buttonholed by irate local officials or chatting amiably about former Prime Minister John Major's sex scandal as they prop up the bar the night before their big speeches. Once the scene of brutal factional brawls, the conference in Blair's era has been systematically drained of strife. So this year two things were striking: that Blair came in for something of a rough ride, and that old-fashioned oratory, from Blair and then his special guest Bill Clinton, mesmerized the dissenters. Like any good two-man performance, it had its own careful rhythm: setup and payoff, stern...
Feiler began Abraham after the Sept. 11 attacks, seeking a unifying symbol in a time of strife. Instead, the book records his growth from a dewy-eyed Abrahamic novice to a more realistic observer. As he remarks, "When I set out on this journey, I believed ... the Great Abrahamic Hope was an oasis in the deepest deserts of antiquity, and all we had to do was track him down and his descendants would live in perpetual harmony, dancing Kumbaya around the campfire. That oasis, I realized, is just a mirage." The sober understanding Feiler ends up with, however...
MCAS looms as just one of several high-stakes issues confronting the school committee this year. As the committee faces the contentious merger process and resolve continuing trouble at CRLS, committee members anticipate a school year filled with strife and contention...
Person of the Week As president of strife-torn Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai is on the hit lists of some of the world's most dangerous warlords and terrorists. On Thursday, Karzai narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in Kandahar, just hours after a car bomb killed 30 people in Kabul. Karzai later remarked, "I expect things like this to happen...
...Gets High On Strife There is still one market George W. Bush can boost by making a speech: commodities. Hawkish talk about war with Iraq pushed oil through the $30 mark last week, its highest level in 15 months. Prices eased slightly as OPEC indicated it would fill shortfalls caused...