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According to Newsweek 's account of the U.S. team's preparation, "Roommates were switched at every stop on the World Cup road to prevent cliques from forming.
The program thought it could do this by a) making us watch Pepsi-sponsored movies featuring anti-drug propaganda and shrewd product placement; b) reinforcing the most obnoxious cliques on campus by choosing all the "All Star" officers from a popular group of athletes and cheerleaders (on average, B and C students who drank, smoked, and skipped class); c) doing everything possible to conceal the fact that high school's purpose is education; and d) giving us the opportunity to buy as much "All Star" merchandise as our parents could afford.
By the early 1900s the area had become a sort of bohemian quarter, beloved of the city’s cliques of writers, artists, and intellectuals.
Besides the White Housers, the two other leading cliques are the Jocks and the Poms, who have a friendly rivalry about which group is more important.
And while there are, of course, factions and cliques within economics--don't get me started--there is, in general, a surprising degree of agreement about what constitutes good work.