Word: quarrelling
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...immediate speculation was that Arafat's anger was partly due to a growing rivalry with his security chief, a man many Israelis view as a potential alternative to Arafat. But the quarrel that reportedly preceded the "slap heard around the world" was not over who should lead the Palestinians, but how they should...
Among other inane things, the council condemned the human rights records of China and Burma in 1997 and reviled police brutality in the Amadou Diallo case in 2000. While we have no quarrel with the content of these resolutions, they were ineffective in accomplishing anything, both for undergraduates and for victims of human rights abuse or police brutality...
...recent behavior, West has style. The SNL skit reminds us that it’s not what you tell your dog—it’s how you tell it. One can admire a funny, stylish comment even if in the process it is necessary to find quarrel with it. For me, the conservative Crimson column by Ross G. Douthat ’02 is a prime example of this phenomenon—I disagree with his arguments even if his style agrees with me. Sarcasm gives us a colorful kaleidoscope realm where the women’s crew...
...cannot quarrel with most of Sontag’s aesthetic judgments—they are, with no obvious exceptions, level-headed essays of appreciation for roundly-lauded artists—but her unremitting earnestness ultimately make her essays a chore to read. One wonders not just at Sontag’s artistic voracity, but at her boneheaded inability to crack wise now and then, or to liven her discussion with even the slightest dip into the troughs of low culture. Sontag has long been mocked and feared for her imposing figure, and nowhere do we see the intensity...
...Syria, currently on the State Department's list of states sponsoring terrorism, has reportedly been asked to supply information to help the U.S. investigation of the September 11 attacks. Not surprising, then, that the President devoted a considerable proportion of his speech to reassurances that the U.S. has no quarrel with Islam, but only with individuals and organizations who defile a peaceful religion by committing terrorism in its name...