Word: strife
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...Boston. The consul general, Porfirio Thierry Muñoz Ledo, attended the event, and activists entered a reception after the show with the aim of urging him to sign a letter condemning the actions of his country’s leaders as well as the Oaxaca governor. The strife in Oaxaca erupted with a teachers’ strike this past May. The strikers and their allies accuse Governor Ulises Ruiz of corruption and want him to resign. The conflict turned violent on June 14, when police tried to evict the demonstrators from the city’s central plaza...
...dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, Alan A. Altshuler, announced yesterday that he will leave his post, ending a rocky two-year term marked by improvements in the school’s finances but blemished by faculty strife and waning confidence in his leadership...
...Design School Dean Alan A. Altshuler's leadership this past winter. Mori does acknowledge that she and other department chairs warned Altshuler that such a vote had been proposed. The Oct. 24 news article, "GSD Dean To Step Down," inaccurately described this paper's own March 3 report on strife between Altshuler and department chairs. The March report never said Mori was an instigator of the no-confidence vote...
...done. The first and most difficult step for some evangelical Christians is to acknowledge the critical role that the establishment clause has played not only in the development of our democracy but also in the robustness of our religious practice. Not only has America avoided the sorts of religious strife that plague the globe, but religious institutions have continued to thrive - a phenomenon that some observers attribute directly to the absence of a state-sponsored church...
...underway in the region, which is still struggling to recover from the wars and ethnic cleansing of the previous decade. “If your hatred were to be transformed into electrical energy, it would be enough to light an entire city,” Tadic said of past strife, quoting Nikola Tesla, whom Tadic called “the man Serbia and Croatia celebrate together.” Tadic argued that giving independence to Kosovo—a region in Serbia that underwent ethnic cleansing under the Slobodan Miloševic regime—is not a viable idea...