Word: schisms
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...calls for national reconciliation, even reaching out to former low-level members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, encouraging them to return to mainstream politics. But Iraq isn't a place with short memories. Reconciliation is difficult in a land where the 1,400-year-old Shi'ite-Sunni schism is still very much alive. Gone are the days when some Iraqi men carried three national identification cards - one listing their name as Omar (a predominantly Sunni name), another as Ali (predominantly Shi'ite) and a third as Ammar (which can be either). Still, few families have trickled back...
...amend the constitution to strengthen the powers of the central government in Baghdad at the expense of Iraq's 18 provinces - including the semiautonomous three-province Kurdish region in the north - have faced fierce pushback from his Kurdish allies, some of whom have called him "the new Saddam." That schism is bound to widen in the coming months, when the U.N. issues its findings over the disputed oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk, which Kurds claim as their "Jerusalem" but which Arabs are loath to let go of. (See a TIME photographer's record of the Iraq...
...been present on Capitol Hill, but this brand of congressional balance-of-power politics was conspicuously absent from the postbellum annexation of Western states, including Hawaii and Alaska. What does it say of the state of our nation that the issue of D.C. voting rights has exposed a political schism reminiscent of antebellum America...
...country until new elections, which are supposed to be held within 60 days. Yet with billions of dollars of illegal drug revenues in the impoverished country some political analysts predict that instability will continue. "Rivalries over control of narcotics trafficking may be at the heart of the schism between military and the presidency," said Jonas Horner, Africa Associate of the Eurasia Group in Washington in a statement yesterday...
Some observers have warned of a potential schism in the party between moderate voices and those farther on the right, like Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh. Does that possibility concern...