Word: splinteredness
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Luther and Johnny reportedly emerged as leaders in 1997, when other Karen fighters fled in disarray ahead of a massive government assault on the country's last unruly region. The Htoo twins told their villagers to stay and fight. "At one point there were just seven of them surrounded by...
It is hard to imagine a more explosive, splintered era in art making than the past 50 years in America. The roll call is dizzying--happenings, body art, minimalism, earthworks, conceptualism, neo-Expressionism, installations--to name just a few of the schools that have swum vigorously or otherwise through public...
The case highlights a growing criticism of the Supreme Court of the past 25 years - that modern justices' proclivity for delivering splintered decisions muddies the rule of law. "The most interesting aspect of this case," opines TIME senior reporter Alain Sanders, "is that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw up its...
Suddenly the psycho-esque beeping of an oncoming truck increased, and the last truck of the day pulled into make its final deposit. He pushed a button and the back of his truck went up with a swoosh. Tilting back, the truck purged its contents of splintered wood, three legged...
But there is pressure on Congress to confront the issue, and it is coming from an unexpected quarter: the business community. While commercial interests joined forces to block the Kyoto treaty in the Senate two years ago, the opposition has since splintered. Even such big oil companies as BP Amoco...