Word: rift
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...most at ease around other golfers, though he isn't as relaxed around Woods. "I don't know," Singh says about the rift question. "He's a good guy. It's just that the pressure, the situation of him being as good as he is and the demands on his time, it's very hard to get close to a person like that." Singh didn't like Woods' comments about the Sorenstam affair--"I wish Vijay hadn't said that"--or rumors that Woods suspected him of using an illegal driver. Woods fumed when Singh's caddie wore...
These factors combined have spurred concern among seniors that the unusual rift over the traditional graduation gift to Harvard may prove divisive...
...aftershocks continue - 50 since Tuesday, according to the Geological Survey of Iran - amid mounting fear that the biggest of all may be yet to come. Iran sits on a major rift; its capital, Tehran, nestles on a spaghetti junction of fault lines. Mohsen Ghafory-Ashtiany, head of Iran's International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology estimates that "the possibility of an earthquake measuring more than six on the Richter scale occurring now in Tehran is about 90%." "The government must have more oversight on new building constructions, making sure they obey safety codes," adds Abdollah Saidi of the Geological...
...rift between the U.S. and Europe is evident on issues as diverse as the Kyoto treaty and the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo. But it's likely to be felt most acutely in the strategic realm, in which the Europeans plainly no longer see themselves as hitched to the U.S. on matters of global conflict and security. The Europeans will make their own policy on Iraq, building their own relationships with its new government independently of the U.S. And presumably, so will others - as power shifts toward a government dominated by groups historically closer to Iran than they...
...railroad making it easier to access remote lands, the British government created reservations that would be off-limits to white settlement. The treaty set aside as Masai lands 23,000 sq km in two regions: the Laikipia plateau and an area south of Nairobi. This left the fertile Rift Valley and what would become Nairobi open for the settlers. It was to be "enduring as long as the Masai as a race shall exist." But it lasted just seven years. In a 1911 treaty, the colonial governor grabbed the fertile lands of Laikipia and exchanged them for an expansion...