With one foot in the West and the other in the Middle East, Turkey was able to mediate between Lebanon's rival factions, between Iraq's Shias and Sunnis, and between Israel and Syria (until Israel's 2009 assault against Gaza).
The now irreversible breach between Mr Erdogan and Syria's president, Bashar Assad, may have revived Mr Assad's friendship with the PKK. Growing discord between Iraq's Kurds in Erbil and the Shia-led central government in Baghdad is another worry.
And the thing about a leadership contest is it's not between enemies or foes, it's a contest between friends and perhaps we all would rather not be in a position of having to decide between friends but we have to make that decision.
Saturday's meeting between U.S. diplomats and the crew was the third since the detainment began.
The association informed the AFC, which then named replacement officials for Wednesday's match between Singapore's Tampines Rovers and India's East Bengal.
It was dismayed by its exclusion from last month's peace accord between Iraq's two main Kurdish factions (see article).
The lead soon evaporated as Antropov, left all alone in the slot, swept Kyle Wellwood's centering pass between Lundqvist's pads at 1:15.
This is the difference between today's Mexicans and yesterday's Okies, between the Joads and the Vegas (although Tom Joad was also on the run from the law).
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At Wembley Arena, fans jeered as the women's doubles match between China's Yu Yang and Wang Xiaoli and South Koreans Jung Kyung-eun and Kim Ha-na saw repeated errors.
And yet the careers of Michigan's John Beilein and longtime Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim are so intertwined that Saturday's national semifinal between Beilein's Wolverines (30-7) and Boeheim's Orange (30-9) likely will be bittersweet, no matter the outcome.
Though there is little love lost between Macedonia's Slav majority and its ethnic Albanians, who muster between a quarter and a third of the country's 2.1m people, both sides are trying to maintain a modicum of harmony.
The first was Joseph Schumpeter's distinction between an economist's vision and his analytic scheme.
There's a fundamental tension between Cyprus's interests and Europe's, according to Yiannis Papadopoulos, Politis's publisher.
The impolite truth is that Robert Forster was The Go-Between's lesser half.
And then there's the wage gap between Delphi's US and foreign workers.
Between's users presumably think the cynics lack romance in their souls.
But there's a critical difference between Nixon's strategy and the one Romney now owns: Nixon had credibility with the far right and didn't put it at risk when he rushed to the center.
There's also more racial tension between Compton's black and Latino gangs than ever before.
But it's basically the sibling dynamic between Hoffman's character and Linney's character, and the last mainly come from that.
There's going to be talks between Iran's chief negotiator and Javier Solana, the chief European negotiator, and that will decide where Iran will stand.
Williams, 26, will play in the quarter-finals on Friday against the winner of Thursday's second-round match between Russia's Alisa Kleybanova and Swiss fifth seed Patty Schnyder.
Mr Talabani, who has known Mr Suleimani since the Kurdish leader's days in opposition to Saddam Hussein, appealed for Iran's help to reduce tension between Iraq's various militias.
'', says Freyn with a sly pun that signals Mr Merrick's extension of Conrad's theme: the equivalence between Cowley's impoverished compu-mind and the soullessness of the imperial project.
On Kenya, Mr. Bush is dispatching Condoleezza Rice to augment Kofi Annan's efforts to seal a deal between Kenya's president and political opposition there.
Underlying the Collins Amendment was a fight between U.S regulators, in particular, between Sheila Bair, whose term as Chairman of the FDIC expires on July 8, 2011 and John Walsh, acting Comptroller of the Currency.
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The strands light up in those places where there's a mismatch between the chip's everyman DNA and that of the person being tested.
The strands work like a molecular Light Brite, lighting up in those places where there's a mismatch between the chip's everyman DNA and that of the person being tested.
This week's apparent deal between Mr Maliki's team and the religiously minded Iraqi National Alliance (INA), which includes the Hakim family's once-dominant Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq as well as Mr Sadr's fiercely populist and nationalist group, is far from sealed.
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Today he is backing the conservancy's efforts to get the balance right between Maine's fishermen and the oceans' depleted fish stocks.
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