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  • Fissures in the foundation do not necessarily presage collapse.

    China's Economy Faces Three Contradictions David Wessel 2011

  • Regarding the use of naco by one of the teens I interviewed in Querétaro, a wonderful essay on the term and its sociocultural implications by Claudio Lomnitz, “Fissures in Contemporary Mexican Nationalism,” was published in Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico: An Anthropology of Nationalism University of Minnesota Press, 2001.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • Fissures in the foundation do not necessarily presage collapse.

    China's Economy Faces Three Contradictions David Wessel 2011

  • Fissures have opened within the Obama administration over the drone program targeting militants in Pakistan.

    What's News— 2011

  • Regarding the use of naco by one of the teens I interviewed in Querétaro, a wonderful essay on the term and its sociocultural implications by Claudio Lomnitz, “Fissures in Contemporary Mexican Nationalism,” was published in Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico: An Anthropology of Nationalism University of Minnesota Press, 2001.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • Regarding the use of naco by one of the teens I interviewed in Querétaro, a wonderful essay on the term and its sociocultural implications by Claudio Lomnitz, “Fissures in Contemporary Mexican Nationalism,” was published in Deep Mexico, Silent Mexico: An Anthropology of Nationalism University of Minnesota Press, 2001.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • Fissures appear in their well-ordered, well-appointed lives when succession plans are announced at the family company, and Emma's beloved son Edo Flavio Parenti is elevated to share power with his father.

    John Farr: She Who Dares: The Astonishing Work Of Tilda Swinton John Farr 2011

  • Fissures appear in their well-ordered, well-appointed lives when succession plans are announced at the family company, and Emma's beloved son Edo Flavio Parenti is elevated to share power with his father.

    John Farr: She Who Dares: The Astonishing Work Of Tilda Swinton John Farr 2011

  • WASHINGTON—Fissures have opened within the Obama administration over the drone program targeting militants in Pakistan, with the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan and some top military leaders pushing to rein in the Central Intelligence Agency's aggressive pace of strikes.

    Drone Attacks Split U.S. Officials Adam Entous 2011

  • Fissures have opened within the Obama administration over the drone program targeting militants in Pakistan.

    What's News— 2011

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