Word: schisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most serious religious schism in centuries is pitting the Orthodox Church of Russia against the Patriarchate of Constantinople, historically the most honored see of the Orthodox Church. The locus of the fight is tiny: jurisdiction over 54 Orthodox clerics in Estonia, a mostly Lutheran country once part of the Soviet Union. But the ramifications may be global...
HALEY BARBOUR Party chair who calls G.O.P. a "big tent" fears Buchanan schism will turn it into a sideshow...
...choosing Hitler as my millennium figure because in a personal sense...as an impresario of evil, he cut my daughter's century from her millennium by destroying the Polish Jews, the central European Jews," Leyner said. "This individual created a temporal schism for a lot of people. There's no returning to what was destroyed...
Part of this discrepancy may be due to blacks' experiences with police, but we worry that it also stems from a fundamental racial schism in American society. All the photos from the minutes after the trial showed blacks shouting for joy and whites dropping their mouths in outrage. We feel this reflects the dangerous yet prevalent view of whites that blacks are more likely to be criminals and of blacks that they themselves are more likely to be treated unfairly by a "white system...
...schism between a diminishing core of loyal revolutionaries and the rest of Iranian society is growing. The divide is religious, political and especially cultural. "When I came back from the war with Iraq, I was disgusted," says a Revolutionary Guard commander. "I saw my friends martyred, and here all the young people wanted was to be like Madonna and Michael Jackson." By their way of dress, Iranians signal where they stand in the cultural divide. Devout revolutionaries wear dark colors. Men favor baggy trousers, long-sleeved shirts buttoned to the neck and several days' growth of beard; women wear layers...