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...With leaders like ours, who only think of their own personal ambition of controlling the party, I don't see how we'll ever get back into power again," lamented Fouzia Benyoub, a Parti Socialiste (PS) member. Her glumness typified the mood at the party's 75th congress in Reims on Saturday. Many of the party's brightest lights seemed to be competing in the increasingly bitter battle for the position of first secretary, with an eye to launching a presidential bid of their own against Sarkozy in four years. And those who weren't were keeping busy dishing...
...times you think the PS defeats itself like this out of some perverse desire to help the right stay in power forever," commented Benyoub, who traveled to Reims from her home in suburban Paris. "The leaders are no better than their backers: it's all about beating the person next to you to get control of the party, and to hell with bigger priority of a unified left getting back into power. Sarkozy has to be looking at this and laughing...
...sure, not exactly a novel tableau, but only the most recent display of the fierce internecine struggles that have left the PS divided for the past decade. Heavyweights have dedicated so much time to battling one another that the party has rarely managed to make itself heard above the constant bustle of Sarkozy and his ruling conservative party, the Union for a Popular Movement...
...Sociologists call the movement "e-Palestine": a feeling of nationhood cultivated online by young members of the fractured diaspora, some living in the confines of the occupied territories; others born and raised in exile and connected to Palestine at a remove of several generations. With the internet domain suffix ".ps," this young online community has acquired a kind of international recognition that the physical Palestine can only aspire...
...fence project, and asks the court to force Homeland Security, which claims it has gone above and beyond to negotiate in good faith with the landowners, into new negotiations for the right-of-way. But the 19-page filing is not entirely focused on individual property rights and the Ps and Qs of bureaucratic procedure. The coalition's lead attorneys are not real estate lawyers - they are associated with the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, a California-based group that opposes the federal crackdown on illegal immigration...