New York - Divide and conquer: That seems to be the motto of the world's third-richest man.
"It can be a very polarizing issue, " said Jason Madrak, chief marketing officer for the Connecticut Health Insurance Exchange, referring to the Boston-New York divide.
Even as Russia's relations with America have deteriorated, however, the bigger European powers have worked to prevent a new East-West divide from opening up in Europe.
In fact, you have to cross the Mississippi River and the Continental Divide to find the new breed of pro-business Democrats, led by New Mexico's governor, Bill Richardson.
Katrina laid bare America's class divide, as better-off residents escaped New Orleans while poor blacks suffered in the city's stinking Superdome.
Although no party straddles the divide between Dutch-speaking Flanders and French-speaking Wallonia, the new coalition will include socialists and liberals as well as Christian Democrats.
Worse, several countries have connived in Russia's divide-and-rule approach notably Germany, which even under its new chancellor, Angela Merkel, has been far too keen on bilateral deals, such as the building of a new under-sea pipeline, heedless of the concerns of its nearest eastern neighbours.
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The word is out that Amis and his American-born wife, the writer Isabel Fonseca, are planning to divide their time between New York and the U.K. Not entirely surprising both writers have long been fascinated by transatlantic themes, including, of course, the theme of their Anglo-American marriage.
Israelis and Arabs approve and deplore the decision for the same reason: the new town, to be called Har Homa, would complete the ring of Jewish-only estates that divide Arab East Jerusalem from its West Bank hinterland, making it extremely hard to see how East Jerusalem could ever be the capital of a Palestinian state.
Critics warn that many of these new developments will only serve a tiny elite, exacerbating an already deep divide between the haves and have-nots.
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