Word: rancor
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...political stunt orchestrated by a desperate DPP to win the election (albeit a dangerous stunt?Chen was shot in the abdomen). Two years on, Taiwan's political landscape is still bathed in acid?and with two years left until Chen's term expires, there's scant prospect of this rancor easing. For a start, an $11 billion weapons deal with the U.S., designed to shore up Taiwan's defenses against China, remains bottled up in the legislature, hostage to opposition objections?not least to the hefty price...
...events sparked the most recent round of rancor between Summers and FAS members. First, at the end of January, Faculty Dean William C. Kirby resigned amid reports in The Crimson that he was fired by Summers. Then, at a Feb. 7 meeting of the full Faculty, Summers said he was “not able to make any informed response” to questions about his role in a federal fraud scandal involving his longtime friend, Jones Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer...
...acknowledged that his term had been marked at times by “strains and moments of rancor...
Summers wrote in a letter to the Harvard community that divisions between him and the faculty made it "infeasible" to lead, adding that his tenure had been marked at times by "strains and moments of rancor...
...venomous partisan rancor in Washington, the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club (HRC) sorted out their differences, exchanging trash-talk and welt-raising projectiles in the first “Bipartisan Paintball Brawl.” Though The Crimson has already offered one perspective (“Partisans Clash in Paintball War,” 2/3/06), FM decided to evaluate the battle strategy of the warring factions. Fearless and well organized, the Republicans charged out of the gates with guns blazing, while the Democrats pursued a cautious strategy of hiding timidly behind defensive cover. “Democrats...