Word: clashes
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...spirited clash of ideas is not only inevitable in politics, but helpful. T.R. didn't just love ideas, he loved to debate them as long as it was fair and straight. The "healthy combativeness" of politics clarified differences and choices. The rough-and-tumble of the political arena didn't bother him. "If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career," Roosevelt said, "it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies." T.R. had both. So did F.D.R. So did Lincoln. So did Reagan. So do all consequential leaders...
...rebounding to down the Quakers in the nightcap and take two from Columbia. Then the Crimson turned its attention to its Rolfe Division foes, splitting with Yale on the road and nabbing three of four from visiting Brown. Those results set the stage for a climactic home-and-home clash with its nemesis, the Big Green, needing only two wins to advance to the ICS. In between, Harvard surrendered the Beanpot crown to crosstown Boston College, in a thorough 10-2 title-game loss at Fenway Park. In Game 1 against Dartmouth, Haviland was his normal, sparkling self, twirling...
...first shutout suffered by the program in over four years. Although the team showed signs of improvement heading into 2006, regression or exams broke the momentum, as the Crimson was thrashed again by UNH and went winless in consecutive Ivy matchups against Dartmouth, Brown, Yale, and Princeton, the latter clash an ugly 6-1 beating in New Jersey. The nadir surely arrived on Valentine’s Day, when Boston College wrested the Beanpot trophy away from Harvard, which lost, 2-0, despite its hosting privileges and a seven-year monopoly on the tournament hardware.In the ensuing weeks, though...
...government had fully expected such a clash. More than 10,000 black-clad riot police had sealed off entire areas of the city in an attempt to prevent demonstrators from expressing their support for two pro-reform judges who were scheduled to appear in front of a disciplinary hearing that morning. The judges, Mahmoud Mekky and Hesham El Bastawissi, face possible expulsion from the bench after calling for the independence of Egypt's judiciary and protesting ballot fraud during last year's parliamentary elections. Their case is fast becoming a cause celebre in Egypt, where President Hosni Mubarak...
...Adding venom to all these policy disagreements is the titanic battle for power and influence between the Blair and Brown camps. Though the men don't have deep differences over policy, what they do have is a major personality clash - one that pits two deeply ambitious men, who have been joined for 20 years in a common enterprise of making the Labour Party powerful, against each other. They respect and need each other, but they are also clearly sick of the weird political marriage that has tied them together over the years...