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...October, the Free Press will publish "What Shall I Do With This People: Jews and the Fractious Politics of Judaism" by Milton Viorst. Says the publisher, "Not since the destruction of the Second Temple, argues Milton Viorst, have Jews displayed such intolerance toward one another or battled so fiercely over ideology...
Managing the Senate with a one-vote majority hasn't been a picnic; Daschle likens it to "loading frogs on a wheelbarrow." Senate Democrats are a fractured--and fractious--bunch, including liberals itching to blast Bush, Southern "Dealocrats" who want to compromise with the White House, and presidential wannabes with their eyes on the 2004 prize. Daschle, who keeps an index card in his shirt pocket with favors that the Senators want each day, can sit for hours listening to their complaints. He has cultivated all of them, says majority whip Harry Reid, by "convincing each Senator that...
...Stone says he realizes that “a huge challenge remains in Cambridge” to improve the fractious relationship between Harvard and the city. And one day he hopes to get back to providing for people—it’s what he’s always loved...
...pride can be flagrantly, vividly manifest without diplomats being recalled and troops mobilized. The Cup will provide a joyous month?a cosmic moment?when we can for once set aside and even celebrate our cultural differences, in the midst of an era that sometimes seems all too ugly and fractious. An Englishman may grudgingly admire an Argentine's playmaking; a Saudi might nod approvingly at an American's ball handling. In this angry and uncertain era, we need these matches more than ever...
...table. Siblings of the bride and groom should also be hosts of their own tables, so they don't have to be torn over which parent to sit with at dinner. Brides should enlist favorite family members or friends to step in and "baby-sit" a potentially fractious family member or to act as a buffer if there is tension between parents...