Word: strife
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...This degree of anonymous strife and petulance would certainly threaten any great novel’s composition: Imagine if Melville and Hawthorne had been sniping at one another out in antebellum Western Massachusetts, instead of spending spring days together. There might be no Moby Dick, no Scarlet Letter. High-school reading lists would, frankly, become much more tolerable...
...With widespread political strife, economic instability, massive poverty, and gruesome civil conflicts on their minds, these students say they plan to use their Harvard educations to make a contribution back home...
...event they have been planning since the group received official recognition from Harvard last September, according to Jieun Baek ’09, a co-director of HRiNK. “What we want to do is take attention away from the political aspect and raise awareness of the strife individuals are going through,” Baek said. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the group passed out North Korean fact sheets and Rice Krispies treats outside of the Science Center. Attached to each treat was a note telling the recipient that the average North Korean has a daily ration...
...power struggles. He had just seen the Royal Shakespeare Company's (RSC) production of Henry VI. During its run, actors David Oyelowo and Chuk Iwuji - both of African origin - have been superb Kings, inhabiting the past and the present, and conveying through old conflicts the anguish of the strife now ravaging African nations, as well as the defiant optimism that may yet save them...
...genuine power-sharing government, but we'll watch closely how efficiently and transparently it uses resources." Kenyans will be watching whether or not Odinga and Kibaki will actually share power. They remember 2005, when Kibaki dismissed many members of his Cabinet - including Odinga - because it was riven by internal strife. The political deal has brought many of those same faces back to power. "What we are seeing is not a new situation," says Barasa Tiberius, a senior analyst at the Institute of Policy Analysis and Research. "We are seeing history repeating itself. How can they stick together now if they...