Word: faction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TIME's People, Nation and Society sections. Approaching her assignments as a terrier does a trouser cuff, she hustled an exclusive interview with University of Michigan cyberpornographer Jake Baker days before his arrest by the FBI. She also uncovered a potentially dangerous internal revolt by a breakaway militant faction of the Ku Klux Klan...
...margin for perhaps half the Republicans' 52-seat gain in the House of Representatives and a sizable portion of their nine-seat pickup in the Senate. As a result, Ralph Reed is the man to see among Republican lawmakers and candidates for President. He stands astride the most potent faction in the ascendant Republican Party. And with that power comes scrutiny and criticism-from both the left and the right...
Their death outraged the public and galvanized prosecutors. New turncoats supplied evidence specifically linking the Mafia to a dc faction led by the highly respected Andreotti (who was formally indicted in March on charges that he had served as the criminal brotherhood's political protector). With its leadership in disarray, the Christian Democratic Party -- for half a century the church -- blessed bulwark against the threat of Italian communism-ignominiously collapsed...
...most notorious incidents that took place was the massacre of Palestinians at Deir Yassin, a village outside Jerusalem. On April 9, 1948, the Irgun, a right wing faction of the Jewish militia, massacred 300 men, women and children. In the words of Jacques de Reynier, Chief Delegate of the International Red Cross, the Irgun members killed their victims "Without any military reason or provocation of any kind." British documents and Red Cross sources state that the attackers simply "lined men, women and children up against the walls and shot them...
...door of the reception office at Jerusalem's Kfar Shaul psychiatric Hospital, someone has posted a bumper sticker, popular among one faction of Orthodox Jews, that reads, PREPARE FOR THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH. To hear a number of the patients tell it, he's already on the premises...