Word: factionalism
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This holiday season in Cambridge may be an unusual one, if a new student group called the Grinch Army Faction...
...point of the demonstrations, members said at last night's gathering in the Greenhouse Cafe, will be to remind Cantabridgians that Christmas is more than an excuse to go shopping. The Grinch Army Faction, composed of self-styled anarchists, will experiment with a variety of satirical vehicles for getting that point across, members added...
...laying the groundwork for a negotiated change of government. Two weeks ago Sayed Mohammed Gulabzoi, the once powerful Interior Minister, was suddenly posted to Moscow as ambassador, a kind of exile. His apparent problem: opposition to compromise with the mujahedin. Last week another sympathizer of the hard-line Khalqi faction, Deputy Foreign Minister Abdul Ghaffer Lakanwal, defected to the U.S. while in New York to attend the U.N. General Assembly...
...Democrats. They begin each presidential cycle convinced that they have at last redefined their ideology, risen above the folly of faction and rediscovered the magic formula to create a national majority. The jaunty confidence of the Atlanta convention and the euphoria that accompanied summer polls pointing to a Dukakis landslide are a potent illustration of how deeply self-deception is embedded in the party's soul. Each presidential pratfall comes as a stunning surprise, since the Democrats stubbornly refuse to acknowledge that around 1968 or 1972 they ceased to be the nation's natural governing party. The myth structure that...
...defiance and revanchism of what was once a fringe faction of Israeli politics may become the official policy of the Israeli government. That could render impossible what was already immensely difficult: an updating of the original territorial compromise to accommodate Israel's legitimate security needs while preserving the principle that Palestinians are entitled to live under Arab rule...