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...years ago, a not clearly politicially correlated faction of the Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Club broke off to form the Harvard Republican Action Committee. This vanguard party, this elite force, succeeded in doing very little whatsoever before being resubsumed in the original club...
...Prince of Wales often bears the brunt of his father's bluntness. It can hardly be pleasant to be called a "fat turd," and the Prince plots revenge. Unfortunately, he really is somewhat of a fat turd, powdered and bewigged. He allies himself with the Whig faction of government, but is really more interested in legitimating his secret marriage than in taking a political stance...
Though still in gestation, the party would have the potential to produce independent candidacies for offices at all levels in many states. The new gambit is a dramatic reversal of strategy. Two years ago, Perot overruled a faction in his following that sought to develop a party. Some activists left in frustration...
...budget deficit -- is a bit more subtle and more pernicious. And like the first one, it ultimately gets back to Madison. In addition to his dread of mass "passions," Madison had a second nightmare about "pure democracy": it "can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction...
...powerful triumvirate beneath him could pose a strong challenge. The standard bearer of the liberal-reform faction, Zhu Rongji, 66, Deng's | economic czar, has watched his star soar as last year's GDP grew nearly 12%, to $509 billion. But despite admission by Marxist stalwarts that economic liberalization has saved China from the fate of the defunct Soviet bloc, the economy has become dangerously overheated. Zhu's tough measures to curb growth clearly stem from his sense of how directly his own power is tied to the nation's balance sheet. But in the process he has alienated military...