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...schism between Woods and Mickelson dates back at least two years, to when Mickelson called Woods' Nike clubs "inferior." Woods boiled. "It was a little sucker punch," says Fred Funk, this year's Players-championship winner. "That creates a bit of animosity between the guys." Mickelson apologized, but the bad blood spilled over to last fall's Ryder Cup, at which U.S. captain Hal Sutton paired Woods and Mickelson against European opponents. Although teammates, they could barely look at each other. It didn't help that Mickelson played like a Sunday hacker; when he sliced an 18th-hole drive into...
...SENIOR SCHISM...
...Middle East isn't the only issue on which American and European collaboration is vital. Rebuilding Iraq, stanching nuclear proliferation, and finding ways to engage with the Muslim world - the E.U. believes it has contributions to make on all these fronts. But after years of schism caused by the war in Iraq, should Europe redouble its efforts to work with the second Bush Administration - or go it alone? French President Jacques Chirac made one of the most ardent postelection declarations of European independence. "Now more than ever, [Europe] has the need, the necessity, to strengthen its dynamism and unity when...
Bloom went so far as to resign from the English department of Yale in 1976 for this growing schism in English studies, as well as the Modern Language Association and the English Institute “with a letter blasting them” for adherence to this trend...
...effective leader of this year’s men’s heavyweight crew has experienced little schism thus far between his craft and his spirituality...