Word: rifts
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...true, it would be welcome news in Washington, where relations with France have been frigid since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. Kouchner has well-placed friends in the U.S., speaks fluent English and has been a visiting professor at Harvard University's School of Public Health. The rift with Washington is truly over, he says: "We are close allies, we are friends, and it must be so." He believes the schism has hurt France, marginalizing it in key areas. "We have to offer a new perspective in the Middle East," says Kouchner, who advocates bolstering support for moderate...
...Archbishop's office is arguably ill-equipped for that challenge. A job sometimes described as "first among equals" now looks more like lion-tamer-minus-whip. Some think Williams should step back and let the rift happen. "No one is up to this, however gifted they may be," says Chris Sugden, executive secretary of the group Anglican Mainstream. Then again, Mainstream is a very conservative group that might prefer an immediate split; and if the Communion disintegrates, it is not Sugden who could be known forever as its last Archbishop of Canterbury. Says Bishop Idris Jones, Primate of the Scottish...
...Meanwhile, all the political forces vow to abide by the court's ruling, which is expected within days. "That might be one way out of this stalemate," says Viktor Nebozhenko, Ukraine's authoritative political analyst. But even the most Solomonic judgment may not be enough to repair the bitter rift between the two democratically elected branches of Ukraine's fractured government and set the country on a clear and peaceful course...
...prospect of that led to Yushchenko's decision to dissolve the Rada. Tymoshenko offered to patch up relations in the face of a common and rising enemy. But it may be too late. Even a Constitutional Court ruling may not be enough to heal the rift between two democratically elected but violently opposed branches of Ukraine?s government...
...trial opened with a bang on January 23, as the elegant Theodore Wells declared that White House officials were making his client a scapegoat to protect presidential adviser Karl Rove. Washington salivated over the suggestion of a rift in the Bush Administration, but it came to naught. The defense never offered any testimony to back up the claim, and by the end of the trial, it was largely forgotten...