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...grip on the P.L.O., a coalition of disparate groups, is what keeps it from breaking asunder over such differences. With no potential successor having anywhere near his influence, Arafat's death would almost certainly bring disunity. Among those mentioned as possible heirs is Farouk Kaddoumi, the P.L.O.'s de facto foreign minister. Kaddoumi, one of the founders of the mainstream Fatah faction, considered a hard-liner, has international stature, but he is unpopular among many of his P.L.O. colleagues, in part because of his arrogant demeanor...
...investments up to [approximately $5million] Scott had...de facto free reign to dowhat we wanted while Walter was there," the sourcesaid...
...interest rates, compelling most of the rest of Western Europe to follow at a time when governments were eager to ease credit to help their economies recover from recession. Many Europeans saw the bank's unilateral move as a warning that economic and monetary union will simply replace de facto German economic dominance with de jure economic hegemony...
...they craved: a real choice. Democratic leaders deserve some of the blame for artificially stacking too many primaries around Super Tuesday to create an early consensus. By tinkering with the rules, the Democrats fell victim yet again to the law of unintended consequences: Clinton was anointed as the de facto nominee before most Democrats were comfortable with him. Little known before the campaign began, Clinton is now being defined by Brown's sound bites, his own blunders, like golfing at a segregated country club, and the work of investigative reporters delving into the less savory aspects of his record...
Because they were afraid to set a totalitarian precedent, the courts set a tragic and wasteful one. They should have allowed Theresa Ann's parents and doctors to end her life. This decision would have implied that anencephalic infants were a special case of de facto brain death...