Word: partisans
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...first glance, last week's 287-217 parliamentary vote granting the island of Corsica increased autonomy may look like another exercise in partisan politics. France's leftist majority dutifully supported the government of Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, while the conservative opposition just as predictably snubbed it. In reality, however, the bill is causing division even within political parties and may set off significant changes in France's highly centralized governing structure...
...Hardball' with the usual political flibbergibbits or issuing outraged press releases. I'm talking about beginning to speak out on issues that are close to your heart, issues that you've been identified with in the past: The environment, economic fairness, the role of government. And not in a partisan, attack-the-usurper way, but in a solemn, statesmanlike...
...Today, Israeli leaders remain divided - and not along partisan lines, either - over whether leaving Lebanon to save Israeli lives helped put Israel into its current predicament in the West Bank and Gaza. But for the Palestinian militants, there is no debate. The Hizballah strategy is being pursued by a range of Palestinian militant groups, ranging from Hamas and Islamic Jihad to elements of Arafat's own Fatah organization and even cells created by Hizballah itself, who see firing on Israeli soldiers and settlers with assault rifles and mortars, setting off remote-controlled roadside bombs and sending suicide bombers into Israel...
THEODORE OLSON Confirmation as Solicitor Gen. stalls over questions about his aggressively partisan past...
...idea to give government funding to faith-based charities is similarly controversial. Regardless of whether such an idea is even constitutional, it is clearly not an effective way of bridging partisan divides and helping the country to move beyond the divisive election...