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...certain already: when the tally from Friday evening's voting is in, France's Socialist Party (PS) will be headed by a woman for the first time in its history. Once installed in that leadership role, however, that new patronne must find a way to repair the deep and bitter divisions that have plagued the party for more than a decade - and reverse its impotence in time to challenge conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2012 race for the Elys...
...Lanka's bitter, 25-year-old civil war - Asia's longest-running conflict - has never been closer to a military solution. Since a cease-fire disintegrated in 2005, steady government advances first pushed out the L.T.T.E. from their positions in the island nation's east, then cut off most of the maritime smuggling networks supplying the insurgency in its northern stronghold. The L.T.T.E.'s de facto capital, Kilinochchi, is encircled by troops approaching on three fronts...
...white shirt, and Grandpa’s Harvard bowtie - 2% c) State school: Body Paint - 11% 5. Reason why you’re rooting against Yale: a) Obligatory hatred for those lower on the “US News and World Report” College Rankings - 92% b) Still bitter after rejection - 8% c) I’m transferring there next fall - 0% 6. After-party of choice? a) D-Hall Party...who says those are only for freshmen? - 34% b) Final Club... I’m already all boozy from beer, why not continue in the Delphic basement...
Given this environment, it seems unsurprising that, more and more, those polemics are succeeding. To a limited but significant extent, religion is becoming obsolete. Months ago, President-elect Obama was criticized for claiming that people from small towns, “get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them.” Many understood Obama’s suggestion as embracing the secularist proposition that religion is a trend of past centuries, comparable to racism in that it is something to be outgrown. This belief’s increasing...
...ever get back into power again," lamented Fouzia Benyoub, a Parti Socialiste (PS) member. Her glumness typified the mood at the party's 75th congress in Reims on Saturday. Many of the party's brightest lights seemed to be competing in the increasingly bitter battle for the position of first secretary, with an eye to launching a presidential bid of their own against Sarkozy in four years. And those who weren't were keeping busy dishing out venom at those who were...