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The Los Angeles Times goes with a report on a rift developing among anti-tobacco forces based on whether or not it's okay to grant any sort of legal immunity to tobacco companies in return for public health gains--just the sort of deal at the heart of the proposed national tobacco settlement before Congress.
The piece states this stance could set off a rift within Democratic ranks.
A front-page WP story and one flagged in the WSJ front-page business news box report that the judge in the Microsoft trial was motivated to bring in an outside mediator by his worries about a rift over possible remedies developing between DOJ lawyers and those representing 19 states.
Not exactly Ossi and Harriet: The NYT runs a front-page story that is nearly a decade old: the continued economic and attitudinal rift between Western and Eastern Germans (known as Wessies and Ossies).
But why is this partisan rift over the terms of censure bad for Clinton?