And that rift, which has been known only to those closest to the company, has opened up a question central to Rupert Murdoch's legacy — can one of his children ever take the helm of his $62 billion media giant?
For a start, this debate has opened up a question about how an institution like Notre Dame upholds religious principles while also pursuing intellectual rigour and progress for its students.
And hopefully the longitudinal scope works with the absence of the fiancée to open up a question that the text can't answer but which is still worth pondering: If the destruction of the relationship hurt Yunior, its villain, so deeply, how must it have wounded the fiancée, its victim?
Given that enough of the weedkiller has now been sprayed to cover almost every cultivable acre of the planet in half a pound of the substance, it also opens up a question of which products could legitimately claim to be free of residue traces.
These questions open up a world of potential inquiry and answers for Neena and Mikhail.
The discovery, he added, "is opening up a whole pile of questions".
He also sent an e-mail to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, which still considers him a fugitive, opening up a host of legal questions that could cloud his future even as he seeks to clear up his past.
Likewise, though, we are opening up a place where the questions of the last two tables -- the hungers/desires of the poor and the insights of the poet/mystic -- can bring us new and unexpected insights and revelations.
The confusion, disputes and mudslinging of the past few months have opened up a fundamental question.
It opens up a number questions primarily because the computer can do certain things for the artist that he could not or would not do with traditional tools.
This rules the vast richness of Spanish letters across the ocean - from Colombia to Argentina - out of bounds, but also rules in Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, or Hemingway's Fiesta, and opens up an interesting question of its own.
