Word: spats
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...assume, for a moment, that by some miracle the cease-fire manages to stick. That's when the real political crisis comes on both sides. The public spat that came when Sharon ordered foreign minister Shimon Peres to stay away from a meeting with Yasser Arafat was a reminder that while it is united on security matters, Israel's unity government will struggle to speak with one voice on the question of peace...
...punishment; the concealed show in Terre Haute was unusual, but not exactly the work of Vlad the Impaler. Is there something preposterous about executing a mass murderer in such comfort? What if he'd been wheeled in a tumbrel through the streets of Oklahoma City, to be execrated and spat upon on the way to a guillotine on the spot where the Alfred P. Murrah Building once stood...
...spat with authority didn’t stop after that. One Saturday morning the four of us decided to catch a Harvard football game. We didn’t have our raccoon coats, but one of us had a military knapsack to hide the half-gallon of Mogan David during the game. Given a collective IQ of over 500 you would think we would know how to strap the knapsack tight. But no, we loaded our vino only to have it tumble out of the sack in the middle of the Wigglesworth entry onto Mass. Ave. and at the feet...
...spat with authority didn’t stop after that. One Saturday morning the four of us decided to catch a Harvard football game. We didn’t have our raccoon coats, but one of us had a military knapsack to hide the half-gallon of Mogan David during the game. Given a collective IQ of over 500 you would think we would know how to strap the knapsack tight. But no, we loaded our vino only to have it tumble out of the sack in the middle of the Wigglesworth entry onto Mass. Ave. and at the feet...
...summit approached seemed to support that view: the hemisphere resembled a checkerboard of multiplying trade quarrels. Just two weeks ago, despite their intimate NAFTA partnership, Canada and the U.S. moved to the verge of a multibillion-dollar trade war over softwood lumber; it came not long after a bruising spat between Canada and Brazil that involved subsidies to airline sales and, briefly, a shutdown in the beef trade. Brazil was in a row with the U.S. over the pricing of generic aids drugs that added another thorn to a perennially prickly relationship...