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Whos to blame for this schism? Yassine pointed to the media as the culprit for this blindness toward the shared values and sympathies that Muslim and Arabs share with their neighbors, both domestic and international. There are a lot of people misiniformed in this country, Yassine says. The media broadcasts Palestinians celebrating on TV but never shows the Palestinian vigils...
...What's more, increasing numbers of Europeans are choosing not to have children at all, a trend that not only promises some sizable demographic shifts in the years ahead (with fewer younger people around to shoulder the cost of supporting their generational forebears) but also could cause a growing schism between parents and nonparents about how government money for social services is allocated. "It's an explosion waiting to happen," says Frank Furedi, a reader in sociology at the University of Kent, who is researching a book that, among other things, will explore the growing resentment childless couples have over...
...last week their civility was sorely tried. Thus far Barnum and a total of five other rebel bishops serve a tiny national flock: at most 8,000 believers. But by end-running the generally liberal church to ally with traditionalist archbishops in Africa and Asia, they drew accusations of schism: not only from the American body's presiding bishop, Frank Griswold, but also from the Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, head of the Anglican mother church, who thundered in a letter to the foreign prelates, "How am I to regard those who act without lawful authority...
...There are other, extraneous factors at work, too - $580 million in unpaid American dues to the U.N. is still locked up in Congress despite an agreement last year to pay up. And the impending execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh once again highlights a moral schism between the U.S. and its European allies over capital punishment - despite the fact that some 70 percent of Americans believe in the death penalty, it is anathema in Europe. In fact, his record as Texas governor made the death penalty one of the primary sources of disapproval of President Bush in European public...
...Does such a defection, intentional or otherwise, signal a real schism in the pro-life lobby? Probably not - more likely, the issue of morning after pills is simply too young and too ill-defined to have elicited a wholly unified front...