Word: mende
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...President Bush tried hard to keep smiling. Even during a joint press conference in which the two aired their differences on Iraq (Chirac voicing concern about the "degree of chaos prevailing" in the country), Bush tried to emphasize their common goals. The visit was not just an attempt to mend the rupture between the two countries over the war but also an important step in Bush's monthlong effort to show that he is an enthusiastic member of the international community. This week he will be host of the leading economic countries in Sea Island, Ga., and he will attend...
...battles with some of his guests affected his personal relations with them. "Well, we go to different corners of the room and we face the wall," he said, laughing. It has been some time since he felt so free to make bad jokes. Bush has been working hard to mend fences and keep the world focused on the unanimous U.N. Security Council resolution passed last week recognizing the interim Iraqi government. Even French President Jacques Chirac had kind words. "I may say the Americans truly understood that they needed to play the game, and they did," he said referring...
Summers meets with Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 in an effort to mend a rift that threatens to send the prominent member of the Afro-American studies department to Princeton. West’s allegation that Summers questioned his scholarship at an October meeting makes national news...
...emergency in Plateau, suspended the elected governor and appointed a retired army general in his place. These steps, which were later ratified by the National Assembly, were necessary "to stem the tide of what has become near mutual genocide," according to Obasanjo. The state of emergency is unlikely to mend Nigeria's fractures for long. An estimated 130 million people live in Africa's most populous nation, divided about equally between Christians and Muslims, but they are further splintered into about 250 tribes. In the past, religious and ethnic tensions were suppressed by Nigeria's military rulers...
...overcome some deeply ingrained cultural habits," explains Vololoniaina Jeannoda, a researcher at the University of Antananarivo's Botanical Laboratory. "But people, especially the young, are starting to accept that we can't keep up this reckless exploitation of our heritage." Yet even as the country seeks to mend its ways, the law of unintended consequences intervenes. RBG's Dransfield notes that demand for Malagasy lobsters means more palms are chopped down to make lobster pots. Improved rice yields promised to ease the pressure to expand paddies at the expense of forest, but richer rice farmers use their profits...