Word: flare
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...Marseilles synagogue, similar assaults were made in Lyons and Montpellier. Near Strasbourg, a bomb was found in a cemetery where arsonists had earlier damaged a pavilion. In the Belgian cities of Brussels and Antwerp, synagogues were also attacked. Prime Minister Lionel Jospin warned that the "passions that flare up in the Middle East must not flare up" in France, home to 4 million Muslims and around 700,000 Jews...
...Still hoping that Flare will pull things together and put out an issue this year...
...says Nakamura), Gorillaz have remained as bizarre and unpredictable as ever. Their new album, G-sides, “a compilation of remixes, a couple of older songs that weren’t on the album,” according to Nakamura, betrays a flare for hip-hop that was only hinted at with Del’s slightly kitschy raps on Gorillaz. Add the fact that Gorillaz recently cut a track with D12 (“911”), and share the lead single off the Blade 2 soundtrack, “Gorillaz On My Mind” with...
Therapists say ancient feuds between adult siblings can flare up like brush fires when their parents die. The game of who-gets-what can get out of hand when parents are no longer around to officiate and keep the peace. "Things left over from childhood get amplified," says Michael Zentman, director of the postdoctoral program for marriage and family therapy at Adelphi University in Garden City, N.Y. "Every time a family moves into another phase of life, it creates a lot of stress on family members, and for them to have to work on the nuts and bolts of dividing...
Hanson's command of a broad historical canvas is impressive. But his analysis becomes less convincing when he speculates about the future. Today, he says, "deadly Western armies have little to fear from any force other than themselves." His corollary: the West need not worry about non-Western flare-ups (e.g., in the Middle East) as much as a war between two Western armies...