Word: strife
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Before the usual voices claim that the sectarian violence in Iraq is evidence of the futility of toppling Saddam Hussein, consider that the worst repressor of individual freedom in the Middle East--Iran--is still busy fomenting strife among its neighbors. Iran's militant regime is sowing chaos in the Middle East as it goes flat out to develop nuclear weapons. It needs a distracted West and a war-torn Iraq to accomplish that goal...
...geographical aspect of his alternative model involved evaluating the Arab-Israeli strife as a power struggle and “not a local, but a regional conflict” involving Egypt, Lybia, Syria, and Iran [SEE CORRECTION APPENDED...
...backroom battle reminiscent of the strife that toppled Harvard’s president last week, faculty members of the Graduate School of Design (GSD) have in recent days clashed with their dean, Alan A. Altshuler. The battle reached a boiling point this week, when the Harvard Corporation—the University’s highest governing board—intervened with an unusual letter of support for Altshuler and a pledge to summon incoming Interim President Derek C. Bok to help resolve the matter next week...
...turned around,” Vagts says. “A union activist comes from a very different place than an employer.”Bok’s specialty in mediation was seen, both then and now, as an asset in reorganizing a University marred by internal strife.“The situation today seems to be similar in some respects,” Bok writes in an e-mail. “The faculties are at least to some extent divided, trust seems to be in short supply, and strong emotions have been in evidence...
This solution is based on the view that Harvard’s institutional structure is the problem—that it fundamentally creates strife between the faculty and the central administration and that a forum is required for them to settle their differences. But conflict between Summers and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) stemmed from interpersonal problems in their working relationship, not from the way the University was structured...