Word: frayed
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...private session, the visitors warned Kim that Koreans were deeply divided over his policy of rapprochement with North Korea. Sit down with the opposition leaders, they urged, and forge a national consensus on how to deal with Pyongyang. Above all, step back from the day-to-day fray of party politics and be more presidential. Says Park Jong Wha, a Presbyterian church leader: "I told him, You are the Nobel prizewinner. You should focus on becoming an elder statesman. You should be like South Africa's Nelson Mandela...
...Then they delivered some sobering advice. They warned Kim that Koreans were deeply divided over his policy of rapprochement with the North. Sit down with the opposition, they urged, and forge a consensus on how to deal with Pyong-yang. Above all, step back from the day-to-day fray of party politics and act presidential. Otherwise, they warned, his presidency could unravel. "I told him: 'You are the Nobel Prize winner,'" recalls Park Jong Wha, a Presbyterian minister. "'You should focus on becoming an elder statesman. You should be like South Africa's Nelson Mandela...
...truth, however, the Israelis didn't leave until firing stopped. By the same token, their incursion hadn't ended the firing on Gilo, it had actually intensified the attacks as Palestinian fighters streamed into the village to join the battle, adding mortars and heavy machine guns to the fray. The cease-fire was achieved less by the force of arms deployed by either side than the by the political and diplomatic crisis the standoff had provoked. Indeed, Tuesday's plea by Israeli defense minister Benjamin Ben Eliezer to foreign minister Peres to step up diplomatic efforts to resolve the Beit...
Designers like that it's robust enough to hold a shape but flexible enough for some acrobatics. And because felt is not woven, the edges don't fray, so a soft object can have a very sharp profile...
...deepening that commitment. He made abundantly clear, for example, that Washington has no appetite for direct involvement in heading off the looming civil war in neighboring Macedonia. He simply urged all sides to return to the negotiating table and urged Kosovo?s Albanians to stay out of the fray. But renewed fighting in the town of Tetovo, sparked by rebel forces taking advantage of a Western-brokered cease-fire to occupy new territory, underlined doubts that NATO?s diplomacy - preemptive nation-building, if you like - will be sufficient to stop the slide into civil war. And that would likely force...