There are three main groups of critics.
When Mr. Obama first proposed $800 billion in fiscal stimulus, there were two groups of critics.
Peter Rainer, a critic at New York magazine and chairman of the National Society of Film Critics, said smaller films such as American Splendour might suffer from the decision by some groups of critics not to award prizes as a protest against the row over screeners.
In essence, there were two groups of critics: those who wanted to do away with the association's amateur model and those who emphasized the need for player unionization as a way to more equitably allocate the huge amounts of money generated by college sports.
Hence, proponents of MMR face two very different groups of critics: assorted kinds of moral objectivists and various sorts of moral nonobjectivists.
In the process Mr. Ashcroft, 59, has become not only one of the most activist officials in the history of the Justice Department but also a target for a growing group of critics in both parties who contend that some of the administration's tactics in its war on international terrorism risk threatening civil liberties at home.
The second group of critics, meanwhile, has sought to recast the criticism of G.D.P. from an accounting debate to a philosophical one.
One of the conspicuous features of this period was the critical review supported and sustained by a group of critics, who were in most cases attached to a university or college.
Yesterday, the group of critics got a new member: Marion Jones.
