Word: strife
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...your nose or teeth, thereby suggesting that the tool sitting across from you has some unpleasant appendage in his nose/teeth. Not only will this distract him for the rest of section, but the semblance of intimacy will leave him vulnerable for future attacks. Effectiveness Factor: 9 Judas Factor: internal strife, eventual forgiveness, immortalization in liturgy/musical 5) The Bull-dozer KO Park a bull-dozer outside of Sever. After section, bulldoze opponent, thereby literally crushing her. Effectiveness Factor: 10 Jail Time: 10 to life So the next time you see the world’s worst person hogging a table...
...Monday evening, the nation's Religious Affairs Minister was quoted on state television ordering the monks to cease and desist. Meanwhile, a human rights group in London reported that some soldiers were being ordered to shave their heads, possibly to penetrate the crowds of marching monks and cause internal strife...
...asking about our dinner plans—and oh, I have to e-mail the teaching fellow sitting across from me to ask for an extension on the take-home midterm. And class is over, I have a social life and an overdue paper to attend to, and sectional strife in the Middle East is the last thing on my mind until the next time I zone out in class...
...Sunnis over the old-fashioned way: by paying them. The question is how widely the Anbar model can be applied elsewhere. It is easy to forget that Anbar is the one part of Iraq that is largely Sunni and thus doesn't suffer from the same kind of civil strife that upends order in other parts of the country. And if Anbar was truly secure and ready for a handover, Bush might be able to pull out the more than 20,000 Marines stationed in the province and send them elsewhere. In reality, no one thinks that is possible...
...presidency heralds the start of a new era for Turkey, it's far from clear what that new era is going to hold. "Is this the beginning of a new period of compromise, or the start of secularist-Islamist strife?" wrote columnist Mehmet Ali Birand. A former foreign minister, Gul is widely known as a coalition builder who played a key role in Turkey's European Union membership bid, but his background in political Islam makes him unpalatable to secularists...