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...some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens...” In other words, that this is an example of one of the great dangers that James Madison in The Federalist Papers No. 10 saw as inherent in the democratic process: majority faction...

Author: By Joseph Mazor, | Title: Gay marriage amendment example of majority faction | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

...hope. People involved with the Palestinian leader's finances say Suha's outburst came after she learned that Arafat signed over at least $800 million to the government of the Palestinian Authority two years ago. Several hundred million dollars more in cash for the P.L.O. and Arafat's Fatah faction devolved to the new leaders of those groups, who detest Suha. Top Palestinian officials say Suha wants the new chief of the P.L.O., Mahmoud Abbas, and Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei to give her money out of the P.L.O.'s party coffers. But the organization is not as flush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where's Arafat's Money? | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

...leader wanted to appear to be jumping into Arafat's shoes before he was dead, but P.L.O. chiefs told TIME they decided that in the absence of Arafat, Secretary-General of the P.L.O. Executive Committee, Mahmoud Abbas, would become head of the P.L.O. and of the powerful Fatah faction. Abbas will probably keep a low profile until the results of Arafat's Paris tests are in, but it's clear he's preparing to take control. Meanwhile, P.L.O. leaders expect that in Arafat's absence, Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei will begin carrying out the reforms of the security forces demanded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Lions Vying to Prevail | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

...Arafat, in the sense of a single individual who controls so much of Palestinian political life, and a new leadership is likely to be more collective and consultative in nature (a process that can complicate as well as facilitate negotiations). But the overriding concern among the key Palestinian factions is to avoid a chaotic succession struggle that will further weaken their national movement. The basis of a succession of Arafat's PA role, therefore, will be the holding of the first Palestinian legislative and presidential elections in eight years. Following the PA constitution, the speaker of the legislature, Rawhi Fattuh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Next After Arafat? | 11/4/2004 | See Source »

...Commission. But Buttiglione's comments about gays and women, and the fact that he had been nominated by Berlusconi, amounted to a cause that Greens, Socialists and a majority of Liberals were willing to go to the mat for. "This week was the birth of a truly European Socialist faction," said Martin Schulz, the German leader of the Socialist group. (Berlusconi may now regret having compared Schulz to a Nazi pow camp guard last year.) "Despite pressure from national governments," he added, "all our Socialists were thinking like Europeans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Lapdog Bares its Fangs | 10/31/2004 | See Source »

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