Word: spat
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...President Sarkozy had chosen to host him during a five-day visit. France's junior minister for human rights Rama Yade blasted her government, saying that the visit would allow the Libyan leader to "wipe off the blood of his crimes." Unwilling to play the polite guest, Gaddafi spat back on Tuesday, saying said France had human-rights problems of its own in its treatment of immigrants, who include millions of North Africans...
...that turned out so catastrophic a majority of politicians and voters in the U.S. now oppose it?" asks Jacques Mistral, head of economic research at the French Institute on Foreign Relations, and former official at the French Embassy in Washington during the darkest days of the Franco-American Iraq spat. "Virtually everyone in France is happy to see friendly feelings and a positive atmosphere restored, but people are also aware that Iraq, Guantanamo, Iran, and most issues that still divide us were carefully ignored," during Sarkozy's trip...
...point during the long spat between the professors, Dershowitz sent letters to DePaul faculty and administrators attacking Finkelstein’s scholarship and urging the university to deny him tenure. [SEE CLARIFICATION BELOW...
FIREWORKS Those looking for sparks from greenhorn Fred Thompson during the Oct. 9 debate in Dearborn, Mich., were instead treated to a front-runners' spat over--of all things--the line-item veto...
...spat does no obvious harm to Senator Clinton either, and for similar reasons. By highlighting her critique of the Petraeus testimony, Giuliani has helped Clinton with the segment of the Democratic electorate that is most suspicious of her because of her 2002 vote authorizing force in Iraq (and because of her refusal to call that vote a mistake). For good measure, on Thursday Clinton voted "no" on a bill introduced by Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas condemning the original MoveOn ad. The bill passed...