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In Rome, the dissolute popes repeatedly switched factions for temporary advantage and lost all political and moral authority in the process.
With no common program and no forceful or even universally acceptable leader, factions assert themselves with growing nastiness.
Either way, throughout his tenure he avoided making decisions, instead deferring to the president and playing different factions within his own government off one another.
I also know there are some expense-account accusations against Gore's campaign manager, Tony Coelho, but don't know who the anti-Coelho factions are that are spreading them (or why they couldn't dig up something bigger).
) Some right-wing Islamic factions aspire to replace the current government with a theocracy similar to the Sudan's.