Word: hatchet
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Superintendant of Schools Bobbie J. D’Alessandro, who also sat on the stage, echoed Born’s assessment of the speech, as well as Galluccio’s desire to bury the old hatchet of tense Harvard-Cambridge relations...
...Voice," headlined "The King of Comix." It presented Art Spiegelman, author of the Pulitzer-winning "Maus," as a kind of New York cartooning Nero - made more of luck and self-promotion than talent, who bestows plum favors upon an elite coterie of cartooning acolytes. Somewhere between iconoclastic and a hatchet job, the piece ended up costing Rall more goodwill than it did Spiegelman...
...industrious and rational,” not to the fanatics and troublemakers and priests. Locke, and later Adam Smith, declared that we could have everything that people used to kill for, and have it cheap, as long as we buried the hatchet on religion and ideology and racial hatred. And (after a while) we listened, put down our swords and went into the business world instead...
...deal has worked, in a way—we’re rich and peaceful and (arguably) happy. But the hatchet is still there, waiting to be picked up by anyone who isn’t satisfied with the honeyed words of the English philosophers—by Timothy McVeigh and Theodore J. Kaczynski ’62 in the ’90s, by the Black Panthers and the Weathermen in the early ’70s, and by Adolf Hitler in Weimar Germany only seven decades back...
...find a face-saving way to end the intifadeh by pushing Sharon into an attack--which in turn would claim a large number of Palestinian lives and thus prompt international intervention to separate the two sides, something Israel opposes. But even if Hizballah and Hamas don't bury the hatchet, their knives are still out for Israel...