Word: schisms
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...schism over Guantanamo between the U.S. and its European allies isn't simply about continental perceptions of Bush. The Europeans who signed up for the anti-terror war feel excluded from any decision making over its basic principles. In other words, beyond "with us or against us" is the question of what exactly "we" stands for. The British, for example, have grown exasperated trying to get Washington to take more seriously Arab concerns over the deteriorating prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace. The Europeans were, for the most part, content to let the U.S. call the shots in Afghanistan - although they...
Last year, the schism between the activist and student services factions on the council still existed, but under Gusmorino’s leadership, the conflict has dissipated—although some council members claim that the disappearance is simply because not many ideological debates have embroiled the campus in recent months...
...prescriptive quality, the book does not trace the issue back to its roots. Political Fictions relies heavily on the idea that an “inside” and an “outside” exists in the political realm. It does not seek to explain how that schism developed, except to observe that insiders gradually and invisibly co-opted the process through the media and corporate wealth...
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...