Word: rift
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...would you repair the American Government’s rift with France...
...step forward at all. In fact, it just reinforces existing gay stereotypes--the notion that gay men can be nothing more than fashion designers, hair stylists and interior decorators. I assure you, there are many straight people who can give a guy a complete makeover. This show widens the rift between "us" and "them." The program is just another attempt at exploiting a subculture for commercial purposes. JOHN DULEMBA Washington...
...delicate task of keeping peace within the worldwide communion will fall to its spiritual leader, Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury. Though the Archbishop does not have the authority of a Pope, he is primus inter pares. Williams narrowly evaded a rift over a gay but celibate bishop on his home turf in July, when that bishop-appointee, after meeting with the Archbishop for six hours, declined the office, citing concerns about church unity...
...like more suspense." In this geopolitically freighted year, might there be any unexpected twists in the way French fans treat Armstrong as he tries to become the first American to win five Tours? Can he expect to be greeted with anything other than hostility? Actually, yes. Despite the political rift, this may be the year that France, which once again has no true contender of its own, finally embraces Armstrong. It might surprise some Americans to learn that in response to all the France-bashing Stateside, there has been little retaliatory pettiness on the part of the French. There were...
When the scientists returned 11 days later, it took them only minutes to find the skulls of two adults, probably male. Six days after that, Berhane Asfaw of Ethiopia's Rift Valley Research Service found a third, the skull of a 6-or 7-year-old child, shattered into about 200 pieces. After years of painstaking cleaning, reassembly and study, the team was confident enough to tell the world that it had found the earliest true Homo sapiens--older by at least 1,000 generations than anything previously discovered. "It's not a modern human," says White...