Word: schism
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...Cabinet Following Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's controversial June 12 re-election and the violent protests it sparked, a series of dismissals and resignations in his inner Cabinet have complicated efforts to put together a new government before the end of August. The departures appear to represent an ongoing schism among Iranian hard-liners in the protests' aftermath...
...individuals strong enough to make a play for controlling power. "Collective leadership means weak leaders and strong factions," says Cheng Li of the Brookings Institution in Washington. Moreover, Beijing's leaders of the current generation all have vivid memories of the potentially devastating consequences of an open schism in the top ranks of the party. "What happened in Tiananmen in 1989 was a consequence of a split in the leadership," says Shih, "and whatever happens, the last thing they want is a repeat of 1989." (See pictures of Tiananmen Square...
...proverbial lid off Pandora's box. The group known as the Society of St. Pius X had, after all, operated a separate ministry since 1988, when its founder, the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, ordained his own bishops in open defiance of Pope John Paul II. Two decades of schism were bound to feed both unorthodox ideas and an autonomous chain of authority...
...again. The group has announced that on June 27, three new priests and three deacons will be ordained at its seminary in southern Germany, with plans for further ordinations at its headquarters in Switzerland and in Winona, Minn. Such unauthorized ordinations are indeed reminiscent of what led to the schism in the first place. (See pictures from the ongoing reign of Pope Benedict...
...next time Obama does a media blitz, does he do Jay or Conan (or Letterman)? Will he need to do all of them? In the end, the Jay/Conan schism may be less a generational tug-of-war than a recognition that the audience is too diffuse for any one host...