Word: discordances
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...China's propaganda system in essays, interviews and lectures. Last month when a Guangdong newsweekly published a list of 50 "public intellectuals," the state-run People's Daily responded with a sharply worded editorial attacking the concept: "What is meant by 'public intellectual' is actually a person who sows discord between intellectuals and the Party...
...while the initial discord between exit polls and election results on November 2 was puzzling, putting together the pieces since then has turned out to be all too easy. In Ohio, Bush received 3,893 votes-without-voters, while one precinct came out with a final vote tally of negative 25 million. In a sworn affidavit in Perry County, OH, an election poll worker noted 96 more votes than voters at a single precinct. Unfortunately, the list goes on—these are just a few of the stories from one battleground state. But throughout dozens of states?...
Moreover, America’s law-makers should be working overtime to not start unnecessary quarrels with foreign governments. The threat of international discord is too important for such pettiness. Whatever one thinks of the last four years of American foreign policy, they have not endeared this country to its global neighbors. Violating WTO rules is not the kind of strategic interest over which America can afford to alienate its friends...
...that doesn’t preclude the possibility of nuptial discord...
...annals of Western civilization, the final collapse of the Byzantine Empire seems to be merely a footnote. It is not. The story of Constantinople’s final days is one with which we should all be familiar; it is a story of the consequences of Western pettiness, discord, and shortsightedness...