Word: spirit
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...that spirit of cooperation won't last forever. The further that Iraq slides into civil war, the more the Kurds will want to insulate themselves from it, by carving out more political and economic autonomy for themselves. Though Kurds have thus far accommodated themselves to the American policy for a unified Iraq, that spirit of cooperation won't last forever. Even if they stop short of outright secession, the Kurds could still open up new conflicts in Iraq, if their impatience with the fecklessness of the Baghdad government prompts them to take action on their own-especially in determining...
...Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast." Such a thought may have held true for a generation or two of Europeans and Americans, inspired by the youthful and sometimes rebellious spirit of the French themselves. But these days, the feast seems to have moved elsewhere - and a growing number of young French people are going with...
...receiving back home. Yet he and his French wife are bringing up their young daughter bilingually and, he says, "I would come back as soon as I could. My country is France." First, though, "whatever government comes to power will have to do something quite dramatic to change the spirit...
...fairy promises of “community.” On Housing Day, there is seemingly no sadness—there is only the comfort and contentment of knowing your next three years will be spent alongside House-mates similarly imbued with a proud sense of “spirit...
...despite this Bacchanalia, Harvard House spirit spends most of the year convalescing in a state of torpidity...