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The reports agree that this a key victory for House Speaker Denny Hastert, who cajoled his fractious and narrow majority--including a cadre of moderates skittish about using so much of the surplus for tax cuts--into supporting the legislation.
One U.S. diplomat later told us that the exile groups were not ready to move forward and that coordinating fractious groups residing in Bonn, Rome, and Cyprus proved extremely difficult.
Instead of a tightly disciplined cartel administering prices to a supine world market, OPEC more closely resembles a fractious trade association struggling to bring supply in line with demand even as its efforts are sabotaged by its own members.
Asakusa is the heart of Shitamachi, the quarter best-beloved of that fractious, gossipy, prodigal population called the Edokko, who trace their “downtown” roots back at least three generations.
A columnist says that Albright's European-history background will help her set Asia policy, since 21 st -century East Asia will resemble 19 th -century Europe: rich, expanding, and fractious.