This pretty, medieval village-cum-town lounges in the Great Stour valley, a quiet, off-the-beaten-track cleft cut into the quiet, off-the-beaten-track Kentish North Downs, between Canterbury and Ashford (in its heyday – 1345 or so – the track round here was beaten to billyo, Kent having been the M1 of an era before modern ships, trains and planes, and the main line to Europe).
Invention and innovation have about as much in common as a cleft stick and Federal Express.
The NDP is stuck in an ideological cleft within the ANC between economic liberals in favour of it and left-leaning ministers allied to the unions who favour a statist approach.
They don't want to look beautiful, he says, just "fresher and less worried".Typically, a swift shot of Botox, a toxin which freezes muscles, targets the deep forehead cleft which can descend on men over 40, especially if they spend all day frowning at a screen.
It prevents most West Bank Muslims from reaching the city's holy places and has cleft its Arab districts in two, leaving tens of thousands of Arab residents on the wrong side.
The most famous is an image of White House, an Anasazi ruin wedged into a cleft in a giant, bulging cliff.
The disengagement has widened the cleft in Israeli society between the "blues", the plan's largely secular supporters, and the mostly religious "oranges".
Mr Erdogan was in a cleft stick: should he defy many of his MPs and still more of the electorate, or enrage Turkey's main ally and essential economic backer?More followed.
SINCE 1974, when Cyprus was cleft in two by a Turkish invasion prompted by talk of a Greek takeover, every diplomatic attempt to stick it together again has failed.
UP IN the hills on Fiji's main island, Viti Levu, villagers with charcoaled faces wield traditional cleft war clubs outside the gates leading to the hydroelectric dam at Monasavu.
Given what Mr Tanzi tells us of its "quadrillion connections supported by trillions of nerve fibres", its branching neurons, its "protoplasmic kisses" whereby a message "vaults across a sliver of space called a synaptic cleft and into the outstretched arm of another neuron", surely we should be a race of demi-gods.
