Five citizens of one of the world's least strife-torn countries will spend the next few weeks in Oslo deciding who will get this year's Nobel peace prize.
But Michael H. Schoettle, 20, a sophomore political science major who belongs to Kalamazoo's model United Nations, said he wished the candidates had at least mentioned the strife in Sudan, the AIDS crisis in sub-Saharan Africa and the nuclear threat from Iran and North Korea.
On March 27th gunmen hit another Mogadishu hotel popular with politicians, killing at least 17 people.Meanwhile, strife within the government continues to damage President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.
Much of Spain's political history since 1800 has been a tale of savage partisan strife, not least in the short-lived republic that he overthrew.
Above all, he has managed to avert civil strife, at least tempering Russia's steady decline with a measure of political stability.Soon Russia will face some big bills for the repayment of various loans (see article).
Nearly 200 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville was bewildered by the mixture of devout religiosity he found in the U.S. combined with the relative absence of denominational strife, at least among Protestants.
The backlot tours, later renamed the Universal Studios Studio Tour, have since endured fires, labor strife, at least one fatal accident and a series of expansions.
Apart from these crimes, sectarian violence is almost non-existent in Scotland.Yet the ingredients for strife, superficially at least, do exist.
At least one source of domestic strife is to be banished from the Obama White House: Barack Obama is under pressure to give up his beloved BlackBerry.
GM could ride out any labor strife, for at least a little while, on GMAC and its recently raised cash.
The most workable solution they suggest, the one that's least likely to cause instant strife, is the establishment of a neutral and separate province of Kerkuk with all the parties having a share.
