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Pessimists are worried that Israel may come to see as pointless further concessions to an organization that is increasingly fractious. Arafat's task, as usual, will be to prove the pessimists wrong...
...Candide. But Wenders actually has a new idea, courtesy of recent history. In Wings of Desire, two angels hovered over divided Berlin, invisibly consoling its citizens. In the sequel, written by Wenders, Ulrich Zieger and Richard Reitinger, angels patrol a Berlin that is politically united but even more fractious -- a city of gangsters and gun runners, of the homeless and spiritually helpless. Wayne's World 2 this...
...championed. If modern evangelicalism is in many ways Graham's passionate creation, it could suffer grievously once he is gone. A war over either the social agenda of the religious right or the theological assertions of the Fundamentalists could rend the movement that he held together almost against its fractious nature...
...attempt to reduce the authority oflocal, fractious majorities," he said during thetrial...
...inaugural address, Rupp pledged to maintain "the distinctive character of [Columbia's] lovingly complex, fractious, yet also unified community...