Word: strife
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...Stripe Strife German-based sportswear maker Adidas said it had filed a suit in the U.S. against Polo Ralph Lauren, claiming a twin-striped jacket produced by the fashion house infringed upon Adidas' trademark three stripes...
...like Zimbabwe had helped rally the world ("Africans a liberate Zimbabwe/ Every man got a right/ To decide his own destiny") but Mugabe would have preferred the squeaky-clean Brit Cliff Richard. For once he was overruled, and the reggae star spread a message of hope that the racial strife of Rhodesia would give way to color-blind harmony. The message was heard even in faraway America, where a young reporter named Andrew Meldrum quit his job, sold his car and bought a plane ticket to be part of this great experiment. It didn't take Meldrum long to fall...
...riders argued their case and won. For the rest of the country, the patriotic course is presumably to forget they were ever in strife and cheer for them in Athens. But there's an alternative, which is to stop stifling those pangs of disillusionment. Justice may have been done, but coming on the eve of the festival's return home, this episode makes cherishing the Olympics a little harder. For devotees, it's time to immolate the fantasy and see the Games as they are: not wholly rotten, but deeply flawed...
...riders argued their case and won. For the rest of the country, the patriotic course is presumably to forget they were ever in strife and cheer for them in Athens. But there's an alternative, which is to stop stifling those pangs of disillusionment. Justice may have been done, but coming on the eve of the festival's return home, this episode makes cherishing the Olympics a little harder. For devotees, it's time to immolate the fantasy and see the Games as they are: not wholly rotten, but deeply flawed...
...benefited greatly from the colonial strife next door. Broke after its Haitian defeat--"Damn sugar, damn coffee, damn colonies!" Napoleon exclaimed--France sold a large region, 828,000 square miles, from the western banks of the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, to the U.S. for $15 million. The Louisiana Purchase would prove to be one of the most profitable real estate transactions ever made, nearly doubling the size of the U.S. at a cost of about 4¢ an acre. Alexander Hamilton said Napoleon would not have sold his claims except for the "courage and obstinate resistance [of the] black...