Word: quarrelling
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...Krishna devotees, the Hare Krishna mantra is the holiest of all. "It's a purifying sound, non-different from the name of God," says Pandita Dasa. The Hare Krishna magazine, Back to Godhead, says this mantra is "especially meant for counteracting the ill effects of the present age of quarrel and anxiety...
...theologian, portrayed with unpersuasive piety by Jeremy Irons. Most interesting among them is Rodrigo Mendoza (Robert De Niro), whose spiritual progress gives the movie such modest narrative force and particularized human interest as it has. Discovered doing a little free-lance slaving, Mendoza soon kills his brother in a quarrel, succumbs to righteous guilt and then struggles to atone. To abase himself while scaling the side of the falls as the good father's newest acolyte, Mendoza insists on toting a heavyweight bag of arms, armor and other accoutrements of civilization. This junk boldly symbolizes the burden of his sins...
...diverse population. As the economy changes, displaced workers cannot easily find new jobs in the high tech world. The public schools must lower the drop out rate and prepare a higher percentage of kids for college. The public health system becomes increasingly financially burdensome while public and private hospitals quarrel...
...terrorist explosion and the military action in Lebanon undoubtedly played a part in settling the last-minute quarrel between the partners in Israel's national unity government. According to their rotation plan, Labor Party Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Foreign Minister Shamir, head of the Likud bloc, were scheduled to switch jobs last Tuesday. Indeed, Peres, who has led the country for the past 25 months, had submitted his resignation the previous week to President Chaim Herzog, and Shamir was poised to be sworn in for the next 25 months, until new elections scheduled for November 1988. At the last...
...next public quarrel may be over who is the team's MVP -- regal First Baseman Keith Hernandez or political Catcher Gary Carter -- and whether whoever it is should automatically be the choice of the league. "We know they're good," sighs Cardinal Shortstop Ozzie Smith, "but they act like they have to remind everyone all the time." Carter, Gooden, Hernandez, Darling, Outfielder Darryl Strawberry and Manager Davey Johnson all have memoirs out or on the way. But only now are they coming to their first critical series of the year...