The quarrel has crystallised differences between South Korea's conservatives and liberals and divided the country.
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The quarrel in Washington highlights the difficulty Americans have in resolving the puzzle of Colombia's leader.
And yet every American president is implored upon entering office to bring the quarrel swiftly to an end.
His stance led to the quarrel with Jean-Paul Sartre and others at Les Temps Modernes, postwar Paris's leading intellectual magazine.
She could not remember the quarrel that had brought her the boy.
In truth, of course, the quarrel over the role of the inspectors is a quarrel about the case for war if everything else fails.
But the quarrel embodies many issues facing the Rocky Mountain west.
If Mr Kabila were cleverer, he could easily exploit the quarrel.
An elaborate plan to patch up the quarrel collapsed when Mr Netanyahu's prideful coalition partners refused to let him go beyond expressing regret and offer a formal apology.
As frequently happens, however, I suspect history will reveal the consequences of the quarrel to be quite apart from what anyone anticipated, hopefully in this case for the better.
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On the other side of the quarrel, Mr McConnell suspects that party enemies he made when he was general secretary of the Scottish Labour Party are out to get him.
Until now, apart from North Korea, most of the would-be little powder-kegs have for good reason a mixture of oil politics, the Muslim revival and the quarrel about Israel been located in the Middle East.
It gave them the support of a superpower whilst relieving them of a duty to resolve the quarrel with the Palestinians, even though their own long-term well-being must surely depend on solving that conflict.
There could be few clearer illustrations of the shifting contours of the quarrel between rich and poor countries over who is more to blame for climate change and who should do more to arrest it.
America is pressing for sanctions if Iran continues to pursue its nuclear programme, and some senior American officials believe that the quarrel will ultimately end in armed conflict maybe with a raid on Iran's nuclear facilities.
On the same day Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to the United States, said he had been misquoted in a widely leaked report that he had called the quarrel the worst crisis between the allies for 35 years.
Paul Frazier had asserted in his press conference that the quarrel on the morning of December 6th had been between Amy and Seth, but all the other evidence indicated that it actually had been between Amy and her dad.
And then, you have the quarrel between Sudan and Chad, with the Sudanese accusing the Chadians of backing the Darfur rebels, and the Chadians accusing the Sudanese of supporting Chadian rebels, who are trying to overthrow the Chadian president.
Consider the festering quarrel over the presidency of the European Central Bank.
And yet the ongoing quarrel - the Malawian government is still accusing Madonna of lying about her charity work - strikes me as interesting and revealing.
Nor is the Yilmaz government likely to be strong enough to open the way to a settlement of the Cyprus quarrel by persuading the Turkish Cypriots to show enough flexibility to produce a deal with the divided island's Greek Cypriots.
This is only a pledge, but if the history of European policymaking is a guide, the euro zone will quarrel over the details of a banking supervisor only to agree to one eventually.
The scandal broke when a political quarrel in the national postal service brought its severance payments out into the open.
They will express some sympathy over the North's quarrel with Japan over the kidnapping of a number of Japanese citizens in the 1970s and 1980s, which the North says was settled long ago.
The same limited logic informs Israel's strenuous objection to the Pentagon's intention to sell Saudi Arabia Joint Direct Attack Munition satellite-guided "smart bombs, " or JDAMS. The government claims that while it has no quarrel with the Saudis, it fears for the stability of the regime.
And the moment we fail to recognize the good in those with whom we quarrel, is the moment that we've lost sight of who we are as a people.
Allowing Mr Sharif to emerge as the winner of this byzantine quarrel must have seemed to the general the most acceptable solution in a state that claims to be a democracy.
His description of the Havel family quarrel over their restored pre-1948 properties is telling and, he suggests, not untypical.
He likens the current spat between Mr Bush and the conservatives to a lovers' quarrel, rather than the beginning of divorce proceedings.
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