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...includes the more-or-less moderate Bush contingent and the ultra-conservative wing that propelled Patrick J. Buchanan to prominence in the primary season. It also features a committed anti-abortion group holding fast against a growing pro-choice movement in the party. But the groups appear more fractious than united...
...German environmental and peace movements. One of the founders of the German Green Party, Kelly was a member of the West German Bundestag until 1990, when her party failed to win enough votes to remain in the parliament. Over the years, she had fallen out with many of her fractious party colleagues and became a marginal figure. Her compatriots were shocked into remembrance of Kelly, however, when she and her longtime lover and fellow Green Party founder, Gert Bastian, were found dead in their Bonn house. The state of the corpses indicated that they had been dead for some weeks...
Journalists tend to laugh off such hypersensitivity. Any veteran of a newspaper or TV newscast knows it's a miracle the product gets out at all. Ideological conspiracy would be beyond the capacities of management -- not to mention temperamentally implausible for the fractious, jostling group of egos found in any newsroom. Besides, most journalists are by nature opportunists whose ideology or other loyalties would never stop them from pursuing a career-making story. If there were bias, what difference would it make? Despite the supposedly pervasive liberalism of the major news media, American voters have put conservative Republicans...
...snugly with the party establishment. James Baker is even more alien to the wingers than Bush. Baker would have a shot at the 1996 nomination only if parts of the right wing got so disgusted with the G.O.P. that they bolted to form a new party. Given the fractious mood, and the strong appeal of Ross Perot's aborted candidacy, that old idea could become reality after...
...soldier, Ramos has spent a lifetime sizing up situations quickly and subordinating himself and his men to the task of working to best advantage within unforgiving constraints. That background may not lend itself to flights of rhetoric or legislative imagination, but the fractious Philippines could do worse than to agree on a set of priorities and settle down to the tedious task of putting the country back on its feet...