Word: hardens
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...Even if the purpose of French alarmism and U.S. media leaks is simply to sweat the Iranians into backing down, it runs the risk of becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. The Iranians tend to harden their positions in response to threats, and the sense of urgency being engendered by the U.S. and its closest allies is not shared by the international community - the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, has found no evidence of a covert nuclear weapons program in Iran, and has reached an agreement with Tehran to address a number of specific concerns over aspects of Iran's nuclear...
...invoking cloture--to cut off debate. So far in 2007, the Senate has voted on cloture 43 times. If that pace continues, it will shatter the record of 61 votes in a two-year Senate session, set in the 107th Congress. And ill feelings between the parties will further harden...
...only happen though, if Harvard adopts a different attitude toward its neighbor to the south. Calls for Allston folk to wise up and appreciate the magnificence of Harvard’s plans will not help. Invitations to the community to participate in the drafting of those plans before they harden into proposals would be a lot more useful—we do, after all, share the space and infrastructure—and would encourage us, Allston residents, to reenter the review process with an open mind. No one wants Harvard’s Allston plans to flounder, but many...
...January. In Lebanon, sectarian tensions have risen after years of relative calm. Hizballah, the Shi'ite militia, won praise from Sunnis when Israeli forces left Lebanon in 2000. But after the assassination in February 2005 of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, a Sunni, intra-Muslim antagonism began to harden. Sunnis blamed Hizballah's patron, the Syrian government, for the killing. While faulting Hizballah for provoking last summer's war, many Lebanese Sunnis stood with Hizballah in the face of Israel's onslaught against the country. But any residual Sunni admiration for Hizballah vanished by the end of the year, when...
...immigrants from Lebanon have heard stories of conflict and bloodshed; the younger ones don't seem to harbor grudges on their behalf. Some students had relatives caught up in the recent troubles in Lebanon. Only when questions turn to inter-marriage between Christians and Muslims does the line harden. "That's when the big differences come out," says Charbel. "Personally, I'd find it too difficult to marry a Muslim...