Word: quarreling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Atlanta prides itself on being "the city too busy to hate," but it's not too busy to quarrel about the mayor's pugnacious strategy for battling the Southeastern Legal Foundation. That conservative group filed a federal lawsuit in August alleging that the city discriminates against white males by requiring prime city contractors to set up joint ventures with minority- or female-owned businesses. Tucker supports affirmative action, but she complains that Campbell has abused the program by showering lucrative contracts on his wealthy black supporters. She argues that courts have become so hostile to affirmative action that spending hundreds...
...Cavalli's Giasone, written in 1649, was sort of a blockbuster back in the Italian seventeenth-centry. The libretto is the usual pastiche of bickering deities and hobnobbing heroes, loosely based on the story of Jason and the golden fleece. Cupid and Fate are having a quarrel about which one most controls mens' lives, and they cause amorous chaos among the mortals. Giasone, Aegeus, Medea, Hypsipyle and their servants mill about in confusion and slapstick till at last, all sung out and snugly paired off they come to a happy closing...
...make up a majority of the Jordanian population, challenged the Hashemite throne ? in the "Black September" of 1970 ? the response was swift and brutal, leaving thousands of Palestinians dead and the PLO in exile. "Hamas will maintain that its struggle is with Israel and it has no quarrel with any Arab state," says Hamad. So while the latest clampdown signals an end to friendly relations between Jordan and Hamas, it?s unlikely to start...
...controversy with Neil Rudenstine. I admire him, I think he's a sensitive civil libertarian," Dershowitz said. "My quarrel is with the fact that we don't know all the circumstances and we don't know what role the technicians played...
...book The Holocaust in American Life [HISTORY, June 14], I am said to argue that the Holocaust is "unworthy of American tears." To the contrary, I repeatedly state in the book that tears--along with horror and awe--are perfectly appropriate ("worthy") responses to the Holocaust. My quarrel is with the notion that all these tears accomplish much. This, and not their worthiness, is the reason I ask in the book "why the eliciting of these responses from Americans is seen as so urgently important a task." PETER NOVICK Chicago...