Mr. LaFortune and others hope the dismissal will help heal old wounds in a community that only recently has begun to recognize the atrocities of the riot and its divisive legacy.

Perlstein's compulsively readable study holds that Nixon's divisive and enduring legacy is the "notion that there are two kinds of Americans."

Is Labour doomed to the same divisive legacy Thatcher left the Tories?

An heir to the divisive legacy of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Al Sharpton, and Huey Newton is hardly to be envied.

The exchange, far removed from the role of Mr. Papon and the deportation of Jews, illustrated the enduringly divisive legacy of Vichy and .

The Constitution of Fiji was adopted in 1997 with a mandate to break the racially divisive legacy of the Fiji coups of 1987.

Once the state Labor Party had overcome the divisive 1930s legacy of Lang and had regained office in 1941, Heffron became a cabinet minister.

His surprise announcement in Quebec City - coming after an outcry about his bitter comments Monday night that blamed "money and the ethnic vote" for the loss - only underscored the divisive legacy of the vote.

But Spain is still grappling with the divisive legacy of a dictatorship that ended 30 years ago and it has a history of splitting into hostile ideological camps that threaten the country's political stability.

But even so, Latvia is still struggling with one of the most divisive legacies of its Soviet past: how to integrate thousands of non-Latvians who were left here when the Soviet Union disappeared.