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  • One is what I call the intra-elite struggle -- the conflict between the top elites of the Islamic republic who have just decided that they cannot live together any longer.

    CNN Transcript Jun 20, 2009 2009

  • Human engineers have adopted virtually all the sub-processes found in intra-cellular mechanisms long before we knew they were in the cells.

    Attached to Strings 2009

  • The intersectionalism debate is beyond my aptitude -- though I'm not unsympathetic to Linda Hirshman's quoted observation that "[e] verything is always a contest of one good against another ... you can't have politics if you don't take care of yourself" -- but BGDC seems fair to the various sides and provides an obliging rundown of the ideas for readers (like me) who are not fully versed in intra-feminist debates.

    AJ Rossmiller: Brilliant New Book About Gender and 2008 Election AJ Rossmiller 2010

  • The intersectionalism debate is beyond my aptitude -- though I'm not unsympathetic to Linda Hirshman's quoted observation that "[e] verything is always a contest of one good against another ... you can't have politics if you don't take care of yourself" -- but BGDC seems fair to the various sides and provides an obliging rundown of the ideas for readers (like me) who are not fully versed in intra-feminist debates.

    AJ Rossmiller: Brilliant New Book About Gender and 2008 Election AJ Rossmiller 2010

  • What's scary here is that the level of distrust and hatred in intra-Sunni politics probably doesn't even come close to what you have to deal with in terms of getting the Awakening Groups and Concerned Local Citizens integrated into national Shi'a dominated institutions.

    Bush administration strategy in Anbar imploding 2008

  • What's scary here is that the level of distrust and hatred in intra-Sunni politics probably doesn't even come close to what you have to deal with in terms of getting the Awakening Groups and Concerned Local Citizens integrated into national Shi'a dominated institutions.

    Bush administration strategy in Anbar imploding 2008

  • Shockingly, this has tended to fuel rather than constrain intra-Palestinian fighting.

    Matthew Yglesias » “More Atlantic for me” 2007

  • And since prices included profits, they could not be realized in intra-capitalist exchange.

    Matthew Yglesias » When Economists Stop Being Polite 2007

  • The drug storyline wanders a bit too steeped in intra-clan politics for my taste, but they are ultimately essential to the story.

    REVIEW: No Dominion by Charlie Huston 2007

  • CONS: Mired down a bit too long in intra-clan politics for my taste, even though it was essential to the story.

    February 2007 2007

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