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...White House sees you as a thorn in its side. How do you see your relations with Bush evolving...
...easements have long been the thorn in the side of potential Allston developers. They prevented Genzyme’s plans to expand in the early...
Princeton, especially, has been a thorn in the Crimson’s side. For one thing, Harvard hasn’t beaten the Tigers since 1999, when a senior-laden Crimson squad upset the defending champs 87-79 in a Lavietes overtime thriller. Six straight losses have occured since then, including two straight heartbreakers in Cambridge...
...often leveled against those who question Turkey's treatment of its estimated 12 million Kurds (among a total population of 65 million). Tas' "crime" was to publish material critical of Turkey in American Interventionism, a collection of essays by Noam Chomsky, the renowned American linguistics professor and longtime thorn in the side of U.S. policymakers. Tas avoided conviction and a year in prison, observers agree, mainly because Chomsky had flown into Istanbul to stand by his side, prompting the prosecutor - in the glare of negative publicity - to throw in the towel...
...issue of missing cultural property remains one more unsettled and emotive thorn in the tortured relationship between Japan and both Koreas. The North has put the return of stolen cultural artifacts high on the agenda in its on-again, off-again talks with Japan on normalizing relations. Even after decades of relatively cordial political relations between the South Korean and Japanese governments, the lack of mutual understanding is staggering...