Word: brethrens
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...switch to terrorism, if the rebels realize that trying to take control of territory in a guerrilla war isn't getting anywhere. But there are no signs of that so far. In the capital, there are tensions between the two communities, but neither is as radicalized as their brethren in Tetovo. Obviously, this could change, but so far you're seeing nothing like the willingness to take up arms that existed in Croatia and Bosnia at the start of the wars there. So there are a few more reasons for optimism, but only a few. The rebels are still there...
...Zeit University poll found that 74 percent of Palestinians feel that even if East Jerusalem were to come under Palestinian control, Israel has no right to be in West Jerusalem. Predictably, although Israel continues to have a formidable peace movement with the goal of reaching out to their Arab brethren, no comparable movement exists among Palestinians...
...Democrats, attempting to send a message of courage to their Senate brethren, did everything they could to fight back. Centrist "Blue Dog" Democrats clogged up the process as best they could with procedural snags, protesting that all they wanted was to look at the budget as a whole. Liberals sounded the usual alarms about "the failed policies of the past" and offered an alternative version, which went down in a lightly attended vote in the late afternoon. And afterward, they complained that they'd been ignored...
Once Pluto, king of all the netherworld, got some respect among astronomers. In 1930, he joined his brethren as the namesake for the farthest planet in our solar system. But among some astronomical ingrates, Pluto has recently fallen out of favor. Two years ago Pluto was almost reduced to a mere "minor planet" by the International Astronomers Union, and last February New York's Rose Center for Earth and Space left Pluto off the list entirely, relegating him instead to a disk of icy comets known as the Kuiper Belt. One year later, passions still rage in the astronomical community...
...ready to join with my quilled brethren, but it turns out the Guild is for film and TV writers, whose jobs are slightly different from mine in that they make $2 million a script. Still, their demands touched a part of me, the part of me that's greedy and egocentric, so really more "the vast majority of me" than "a part...