Word: spats
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Following a heated exchange of words, Harvard defender Jason Andersen spat on Williams, hitting him in the face. The spittle actually knocked Williams to the ground...
...been consumed by bickering within the LPF, its second-biggest member. With a populist program grounded largely in public fascination for Fortuyn, its founder, who was murdered just nine days before elections last May, the LPF's survival was always dicey. The end came with the unseemly ministerial spat in which Heinsbroek, a flamboyant recording-industry executive who affects a chauffeured Bentley just as Fortuyn did, called Bomhoff a "moron." Bomhoff, a brittle former professor of economics, countered by calling Heinsbroek a "lunatic." They both resigned, bringing down the coalition with them. Balkenende will lead a minority government with...
There's nothing quite like a spat between old friends. After German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder narrowly won re-election last week, the Bush Administration subjected him to a series of calculated snubs, punishment for a campaign in which he forcefully opposed a war in Iraq--and during which his Justice Minister (since forced to resign) reportedly compared Bush's tactics to Hitler's. One reason for the Bushies' anger, Administration sources claim, is that Schroder left a clear impression with Bush that he would eventually support the U.S. against Iraq. "Schroder looked him in the eye and lied," says...
There's nothing quite like a spat between old friends. German chancellor Gerhard Schröeder, who heads a coalition of Social Democrats and Greens, narrowly won re-election last week. But he badly damaged relations with the U.S. during a campaign in which he forcefully opposed a war in Iraq-and his justice minister (since fired) reportedly compared Bush's tactics to Hitler's. The Bushies were furious, and embarked on a post-election campaign of calculated snubs of Schröeder and his deputies. The odd thing is that, for all the Administration's display of pique...
...arrived at by international consensus; it was as multilateral—and as wrongheaded—as one could hope. On the other hand it is hardly likely that, if the United States had decided to halt genocide in Rwanda through police-keeping action, that policy would have been spat upon as “unilateral.” It would have been the right thing to do, and our unwillingness to do it when the international community failed to act is something we should all regret...