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...longstanding rift between the two men is reportedly the result of a clash of styles—Summers’ blunt approach grated against Kirby’s more soft-spoken manner. Yet a working relationship between the dean of the Faculty and the president is pivotal to the dean’s ability to act as an intermediary between the Faculty and Massachusetts Hall. Their personal dispute came to a head last year over Summers’ intervention in the Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR)— of which Kirby was chair—a move that many...
What's behind the rift? Even though some Iraqi insurgent groups have cooperated with jihadist fighters to battle U.S. troops, insurgent leaders say they have grown sick of al-Qaeda's killing innocent Iraqi Shi'ites, whom al-Zarqawi considers infidels. Cracks in al-Qaeda's alliance with the Iraqi groups became more pronounced after the Dec. 15 election. Al-Zarqawi saw the poll as a detour from his goal of turning Iraq into a base from which al-Qaeda could spread terrorism throughout the Middle East and Europe. Many Sunni resistance groups have a narrower focus: ridding Iraq...
Nidhi Khurana, 25, has dated Indian Americans, but for the past three years, she has been seeing an African-American man. "It definitely caused a rift with my parents," she says. "They were very confused." Her father Sunil, a gastroenterologist who came to the U.S. in 1977, admits that accepting the interracial romance "was hard. We are very active in the Indian community, [and] everybody watches you. Also, you grow up in a certain culture, and you expect that to continue...
...accept a more restrictive standard than Vice President Dick Cheney, who has been trying--so far in vain--to get an exemption for CIA officers in the legislation that Arizona Senator John McCain has pushed to ban torture and other inhumane treatment. A senior State Department official denied any rift between Rice and Cheney and insisted Rice was merely "clarifying existing policy." But two senior Administration officials interpreted Rice's increasingly pointed statements as a clear sign to the bureaucracy back home as well as to allies in Europe that her more sweeping restrictions were to be operative U.S. policy...
Politically correct holiday greetings are all the rage this year, so much so that Christian groups are slamming each other--not to mention our born-again President--for insufficient reverence. Can Christmas merchandise heal the rift...