1.   Actually, the parties may be a few pages apart, but the divide should be closed quickly.

2.   Bush said he wants to improve education, cut taxes and close the divide between the rich and poor.

3.   But the two sides have divergent demands, observers say, and it is unlikely that Mugabe can close the divide without giving away his trump card.

4.   It will be tragic if Bush cannot somehow close this sharp racial divide.

5.   It would help, some say, if the hatred and the turmoil had closed the educational divide between children of different races and ethnicities.