Word: rift
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...yesterday’s incident exposed a rift between Crimson Reading and its partner, the Undergraduate Council. UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08, whose organization works with Crimson Reading to maintain the site and database, said that Crimson Reading should respect the Coop’s request that students not write down textbook information in the store...
...from clear how extensive they really are. An often cited USGS report from 2000 estimated that the Arctic could contain 25% of the world's undiscovered oil reserves. More precise guesses are just beginning to come out. Late last month the USGS put total reserves in the East Greenland Rift Basins at 31.4 billion bbl. of "oil equivalent," mostly in the form of natural gas. (That would be the equivalent of about four years of U.S. oil consumption.) While the assessment of the region won't be finished until next year, Don Gautier, one of the survey's principal investigators...
...Iraq, though he supported the government line - something he is reputed not to have done when Israel invaded Lebanon last year. "Blair's position was too close [to the U.S.], and now they have to find a way of getting some distance without causing a rift," says Charles Kupchan, a professor of international affairs at Georgetown University. Miliband rejects that interpretation: "Our relationship with the U.S. is our single most important bilateral relationship. It's as important under this government as it was under the last government. There's not a single anti-American in the U.K. government...
...Still, there were no signs of any rift as Bush and Brown held their first joint press conference, at Camp David on Monday. Quite the opposite; they were down-right chummy. Bush played the cut-up and Brown came out of his shell. The two chuckled over an inside joke about Brown's toothpaste. Bush said Brown wasn't the "dour Scotsman" he'd read about in the press. "He's a glass half full guy, not a glass half empty guy," said Bush...
...hope of Blair's bridging the intra-Palestinian rift that runs through the heart of the PA is made that much more difficult by the Quartet's refusal to deal with Hamas. In a speech last week, President Bush announced a plan to continue Hamas's international isolation, while lavishing money and weapons of Fatah - a scheme that few observers in the region believe is likely to bring peace any closer...