Word: leaderlessness
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Gore has decided to break cover at a moment when his party is in full retreat, a leaderless army that in its disarray risks solidifying its status as a minority. Since the election, the Democrats have veered left with the selection of a San Francisco liberal, Nancy Pelosi, as their House leader. And they have veered right with a prompt post-election capitulation to the President on a homeland-security bill. It is a family feud over whether to sharpen or blur their differences with Bush...
...call yesterday to Wellstone’s fellow Minnesota leader and mayor of Minneapolis R.T. Rybak, I asked about Wellstone’s commitment to all his constituents. “Anyone who feels alienated or leaderless, no matter how small you are, you have to make a change,” said Rybak, relating the message of his deceased colleague. “We have to pick up [where Wellstone left off], and figure out how we’re going to move the green...
There always seems to be the music. Whenever dictators pass away, it seems, state-controlled TV takes to the airwaves not with news reports but with music--as if a mellifluous melody could somehow soothe the anxieties of a leaderless populace, a commanderless army and a watching world. And so it was when Hafez Assad died last week. Syrian state media trumpeted classical music and koranic verses--a TV prayer vigil for the 69-year-old dictator. The cameras captured weeping members of the Syrian parliament mourning the onetime air force pilot who had taken a poor nation...
...hipper among the haterati are the nonorganizations, especially Internet hate sites (there were 254 last year, up 55%) and local cells, small bands of racists without time-consuming newsletters or top-heavy structures. These cells' guerrilla hate campaigns are virtually impossible to monitor. "There is a whole philosophy of leaderless resistance, and that is making it more difficult for us to track them," says Ray Velboom of Florida's department of law enforcement. John William King and his alleged accomplices in Jasper, Texas, can be seen as an example of followers whose behavior may never be traced back...
...second half was more of the same, as the Crimson outhustled what looked like a leaderless Army behind Scott's aggressiveness and excellent spot-minutes from Clemente and freshman forward Chris Lewis spelling Fisher and junior Bill Ewing in the frontcourt...