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...concerned females were joined under one umbrella organization, they could certainly be more effective. Communication and resource sharing between the groups would be easier and more efficient, and as a political tactic, one united voice certainly has more power to bend the ear of the administration than many factious ones...
...character of the leadership will try to reach out to people in every faction of campus, not just progressive groups but certainly including progressive groups," Stewart said, describing her vision of the Council as "less stressful and factious...
...factious campaign, Oliver North took 55% of the vote and won Virginia's G.O.P. Senate nomination, defeating former Reagan budget director James Miller III. But the former Marine lieutenant colonel, a key Iran-contra figure, may have to face Democratic incumbent Charles Robb without total G.O.P. support. Virginia's Republican Senator John Warner had threatened to back the expected bid of former state Attorney General J. Marshall Coleman, who would run as an independent, in the event of a North victory...
...positive effect of Saddam's threats was to produce a rare moment of unity last week among Israel's factious politicians, pushing aside the machinations that followed the March 15 collapse of Israel's national unity government. Last Wednesday Labor leader Shimon Peres claimed that he had cobbled together a coalition to displace the caretaker Shamir. Peres plans to present his new government to the Knesset this week for a vote of confidence...
...best known in Episcopal circles as the executive director of the Witness, an independent magazine of the church's hard left. In its pages, she has described her own denomination as a "male-dominated racist church," castigated Episcopal "factious fathers" who fear "mitered mammas," branded as "demonic" one conservative church caucus, excoriated numerous Reagan Administration policies, and even dubbed the Gary Hart sex scandal "Tailgate...