At the Haitian Neighborhood Center, a resource center for Haitian immigrants in Miami, Gepsie Metellus, the executive director, said her clients were obsessively monitoring Haitian television and radio, but regarding the strife more realistically than in the past.
Scuffling in the Dark Through myriad techniques and observations, cosmologists have recently arrived, after decades of strife, at a robust but dark consensus regarding a cosmos in which stars and galaxies, as well as the humans who gawk at them, amount to barely more than a disputatious froth.
A21 Strife for Middle East Leaders Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, lost a nonbinding vote regarding his intention to expand his coalition to carry out a unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
A spokeswoman said the Treasury had been drawing up contingency plans "for some time" but when asked whether there'd been any planning to deal with "civil strife" she said: "Certainly the national security council has, in the past, looked at issues regarding the eurozone".
Regarding "One great big war" (Aug. 31): David Brooks's concluding comment that the solution to regional strife is to contain it demonstrates an ignorance of Mideast history.
Regarding the article "Off the middle path" by Karuna Buakamsri (Views, May 25) about Thailand's recent political strife: It seems to me that you could change "Bangkok elite" to "Washington elite" or "Wall Street elite" and have a pretty good assessment of conditions in the United States.
After decades of internal strife and foreign occupation, Cyprus regarded acceptance into the European family as a promise of stability and the chance to forge a more modern economy.
It is just as clear that the founders, for all their classical learning — or rather because of it — were wary of the instability and strife of ancient republics and therefore inclined to regard them as exemplary only with severe qualifications.
The long-awaited verdict left investigators in Northern Ireland without a single conviction in the Omagh bombing, which was regarded as the worst atrocity in 30 years of sectarian strife in the British province.
