Word: chasms
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...daunting for a man to figure out how to bridge the chasm between, for example, his love of pro football and his daughter's passion for 'N Sync. But, says Kelly, the main thing is to spend time together, to try to regard her interests with an open mind. Steve Emmett, 53, a psychologist in Scituate, Mass., who grew up in a family of boys and is the father of two teenage sons and a daughter Katherine, 11, decided to carve out special time with his daughter by taking daily bike rides to their favorite spot, the lighthouse near their...
...seething Bombay that Bobby becomes convinced he can bridge the racial chasm of British India and pass as English. Bobby swipes the identity of an orphaned British lad and steals to England, where public school and Oxford pour the new Jonathan Bridgeman into the mold of a proper Englishman, only to have that mold ultimately crack...
...President Bush's hands are tied, the prospects for peace-by-conference are negligible in the face of the chasm between the basic positions of the current Israeli leadership and the moderate consensus in the Arab world. The interventions of the past couple of weeks mark a resumption of active U.S. stewardship of the peace effort, but the requirements of that role - and the attendant political risks - can only grow. For if the Arab world comes to believe that the objective of the current initiatives is simply to keep the two sides talking while the U.S. goes to war with...
...globe—are being captured by U.S. forces, it is imperative that we have set standards by which we can try and judge them. Ideally, international courts can provide the oversight and legitimacy that state-based judicial action cannot. For the international legal system to falter now, the chasm between the U.S. and the rest of the world would grow to even larger proportions...
...When you have a big wide chasm and you take a baby step, you fall in,” Turkel said. “I would prefer that the DOE came in and fired the School Committee and our superintendant and shut down our schools...