Word: rift
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...much too fast, which simply couldn't happen." He predicts that "the Rada will end up split the same way as society." Those fault lines deepened last autumn, when Yushchenko and Tymoshenko, one-time comrades-in-arms who spearheaded the orange revolution, traded accusations of betraying the cause. Their rift will now play out at the ballot box. "It's like choosing between mother and father when the family breaks up," says record-label boss Doroshchuk. As often happens in divorce cases, a third party may benefit. A pr activist says, baldly: "We're preparing to grab the rewards...
...situation at Case had been brewing for many, many months,” says Professor Charles Rosenblatt. “The no- confidence movement at Case would have proceeded even if nothing of significance was happening at Harvard.” Even if Case’s faculty-president rift is just a coincidence, a few professors weighed in on their confidence—or lack thereof—in our prez, Lawrence H. Summers. “I think he’s clearly a brilliant man, very outspoken,” says Krauss. But his up-front management...
...instance, a technical dispute over doctoral degrees last year does as much to explain the rift as do the splashier headlines of the last half-decade...
...relative calm that prevailed publicly after Summers lost a Faculty no-confidence vote last March disguised a deeper rift...
Even after that vote, Summers hoped he could heal the rift between himself and his Faculty critics, the president said yesterday...