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...School students criticized an article in this month's GQ magazine that portrays Harvard Law School as a faction-ridden battlefield...
...last three elections, the Beys-Heinicke faction has won out. Aronberg best Kalkanis in fall 1992. Beys staved off Rhew's efforts to impeach him last spring. And with the departure of a large part of the Kalkanis-Rauch-Rhew faction last year, Heinicke won the fall election handily over Duncan...
Calling for a sacrifice may win you points in baseball or religion, but in politics it's a riskier proposition. When Bill Clinton used that word in his Inaugural Address, it marked a victory for the deficit hawks among his supporters. This faction of the President's aides, joined by centrist Democrats in Congress, is urging him to take advantage of the new public willingness to accept what Ross Perot calls "shared sacrifice" to balance the budget and revive economic growth...
...Careful What You Wish For SENIOR OFFICIALS OF FATAH, YASSER ARAFAT'S P.L.O. faction, are telling of a plot that backfired on them. They say Fatah, not HAMAS, the Palestinian fundamentalist group, was responsible for the murder of an Israeli border policeman last month, which triggered the controversial expulsion from Israel of 415 alleged Hamas members. Fatah wanted to cause problems for its rivals in Hamas, which opposes the Middle East peace talks. Instead, the overreaction by the Israelis has aroused strong popular support for Hamas. P.L.O. representatives at the peace talks are refusing to continue...
...friendlier at his next stop, Mogadishu. The Secretary- General was forced to flee to a U.S. Marine compound after U.N. headquarters was surrounded by a raucous mob that hurled rocks and garbage. When Boutros-Ghali traveled on to Addis Ababa for the opening of peace talks among Somali faction leaders, Ethiopian demonstrators gathered to protest alleged U.N. support for the secession of the province of Eritrea...