Families shattered by the earthquake are not just personal tragedies; they are a fissure in the foundation of society.
A businessman involved says simply: "They are raping Maharashtra .A second problem is a fissure between the big cities and the countryside.
To be sure, religion is a fissure in this country and one often exploited by politicians to divide, but it ranks far behind other factors like ethnicity and geography.
It is a fissure in the ocean bed of time, covered with the stony rubble of burned-out dreams and passions, through which we -- as if in a diving bell -- take a walk.
There is a fissure growing between European and US attitudes towards these global super-platforms – "the Gafa" as Brussels calls them (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon) – and the UK will soon need to decide on which side it sits.
"The greatest risk is a fissure within Pakistan's military caused by officers sympathetic to the Taliban," Gary Milhollin, director of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control in Washington, said in a telephone interview.
There is a fissure that runs all through the steps to one of the big cisterns and that can be traced in the rest of the building; the tower has been reinforced with stones that are banked about the base; and there is a room with a propped-up wall that appears to have been closed and condemned.
In Norman Mailer's "Presidential Papers," published the month Kennedy died, the point is that there was a "fissure in the national psyche,"* a divide between the passionate inner life of America and its conformist, repressed official life: "The life of politics and the life of myth had diverged too far".
Whether there is a fissure in the relationship -- and Testaverde maintained today that there was not -- the fact remains that the Jets had a communication breakdown last Sunday on a last-second play that could cost them a spot in the postseason.
