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...burgers last Saturday, after President Nicolas Sarkozy dropped by the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. There was no mistaking the sharp contrast in atmospherics in comparison to the mutual disdain that Presidents Bush and Jacques Chirac reserved for one another. But while hopes are up for a less fraught relationship between Paris and Washington, the feel-good manner in which the two men have agreed to disagree on international affairs may not prevent those differences from sparking new trans-Atlantic tensions when it comes to the crunch...
...hardly need to overcome difficulties in relationships. If the whole getting-together thing proves too hard, they can just move on. Juliet's a Capulet? Bummer. Back to Facebook. Finding a soul mate is no longer a determined steeplechase over every obstacle. It's a numbers game--about as fraught with epic drama and desperation as recruiting a new middle manager for the nonperishables division. Perhaps it's not surprising that the romantic movie that most touched a nerve in viewers last year was The Break...
Because the issue at stake was one of consent, not assault, the words that Bowen and Safi chose in court to describe the incident were particularly fraught. And according to Clarence Mock, Safi's defense attorney, the term rape seethes with enough emotion to prejudice a jury and is itself a legal conclusion. Once that word is uttered, Mock says, "the skunk is in the jury box and it's hard to get the smell...
...These issues] were very fraught in the sixties obviously, [and] they were very fraught when Larry [Summers] confronted them,” Faust said. “It might be a time to look at them again and see what the right positions on these issues...
...times, these efforts erupted into raging debates over the values and the character of the Harvard community. Yet as we prepare to leave this community at last, questions of who we are—and why we are here in the first place—remain very much open, fraught with contradiction, continually calling out for answers...