Political divide took root centuries ago
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KIEV -- The roots of Ukraine's political crisis lie in a centuries-old divide between the country's east and west, a split between two cultures, two languages, and two histories within the same nation.
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An election campaign parades the political divide in the community. Yesterday, amid the extraordinary uncertainty about whether Australians had been taken hostage in Iraq, we saw the glue that unites the two sides of politics.
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The culture wars just aren't what they used to be.
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By Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  May 26--A 64-year-old mountain feud that pitted a promise against pragmatism moved closer Friday to fading into folklore.
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Conflicting ideologies and internal divisions came to the forefront across Israel and the Palestinian territories.
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Knesset approval of Ariel Sharon&#39;s disengagement plan was billed as a historic decision. It could also be a case of history repeating itself, writes Graham Usher.
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MODERN human beings may have wiped out two species of our closest relatives 25,000 years ago, possibly deliberately. The new research, by scientists at the University of Utah, raises the possibility that we
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Feminism breaches walls of the fortress after over 500 years
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A drink of milk was off the menu for Europeans until only a few thousand years ago, say researchers from London.
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As the courts mull whether to rerun the election, lines sharpen along the country's east-west divide.
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"God's Crucible Â Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215" (W. W. Norton, 475 pages, $29.95), by David Levering Lewis: Though it all happened 1,300 years ago well Â some of it less than 600 years ago Â Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Levering Lewis says a long military-religious campaign bore seeds of troubled 21st century history.
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Divided by a twist of history 26 years ago, this remote town straddling the Gaza-Egypt border has been reunited in just as haphazard a fashion.
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A new archaeological discovery suggests humans migrated to the hemisphere far earlier than previously thought.
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The sectarian split appears to be weighing on an unlikely figure today.
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In the US the two religious groups, historically at odds, find new opportunities for dialogue and understanding.
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The Ukrainian presidential election and its aftermath have been marked by propaganda that is exposing old fractures in the former Soviet republic. Differences that are broadly defined by an east-west divide are bursting to the surface.
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One unfortunate outcome of Ukraine&#39;s disputed presidential election is that it has brought into stark relief an east-west divide within that large country.