Word: fractious
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...fractious tenor of the meeting marked the first real Cambridge controversy for Harvard’s new Vice President of Government, Community and Public Affairs Alan J. Stone...
...leaders gathered in Germany to accept the principle of a broad-based government. Then again, everyone at the conference has reason to be especially nice; the prize money for consensus is $20 billio n, the amount of aid the international community has pledged as a carrot to coax the fractious Afghans. The three days of talks that began Tuesday in Koenigswinter are aimed at finding agreement among various Afghan factions over some form of transitional g overnment to replace the Taliban - and avert a slide back into the civil war of the pre-Taliban era. Such a government would convene...
...consider the unfinished business of the Gulf War. But doves have countered that going after Saddam a decade after his ejection from Kuwait would alienate Washington's Arab allies. And on a practical level, many in the U.S. military have been scornful about the potential of the diverse and fractious Iraqi opposition to mount a military challenge to the regime. Retired Marine General Anthony Zinni was even more upfront in his parting testimony on Capitol Hill, warning that overthrowing Saddam would create a dangerous power vacuum. Remember, before 1991, the U.S. had seen Saddam as a strategic counterweight to Iran...
...civilians are reportedly trapped, may sour the atmosphere for Monday's talks. But if large numbers of Afghan Taliban surrender and ultimately find themselves joining with Alliance fighters in facing down the recalcitrant foreigners, they may finally have found (at least symbolically) the factor that bests unites Afghanistan's fractious warlords - a common enemy...
Reeves, who has already served two terms as Mayor of Cambridge, has been one of the most progressive voices in local politics for nearly two decades. He has been a passionate advocate for affordable housing, public education and racial and economic justice in an increasingly fractious and gentrified Cambridge. As a Harvard alumnus and honors graduate in History and Literature, Ken Reeves has also been an unstinting supporter of PBHA, Kuumba, the Afro-American Studies Department, and other revered institutions on this campus...