One faction of Community School District 1 charged that a colleague, Amy Velez, was practicing voodoo on Ms. Santiago.
At today's Pushkin Square rally, Moscow's mayor, Yuri M. Luzhkov, a founder of one United Russia faction, charged that the government had ignored the economy "but it is serving the oligarchs," a tiny and widely detested coterie of billionaire industrialists.
In the easy, hypnotic section of stories called "Secret Lives," Ngugi delivers a direct hit at the infamous Mubenzi, that insidious and institutionalized faction of officials who took charge after the colonists finally departed and proceeded to embezzle funds meant for village schools, remote hospitals and potholed roads.
He joined the International Socialists, a faction of the anti-Stalinist left, and charged into the anti-Vietnam War movement.
In March 2013, another prominent ex-member of the Real IRA, Peter Butterly from Dunleer, was shot dead; three Dublin men, allegedly from the Alan Ryan faction, who were also charged with membership of an illegal organisation, were charged with his murder.
Many in his faction have charges of corruption being drawn against them, and the Revolutionary Guards have already hinted that they are ready to do whatever it takes, including the arrest of associates of Mr. Ahmadinejad, if they feel the revolution is under threat.
He hoped that he might be considered for the theatre's conductorship, but the post went to Jan Nepomuk Maýr, apparently because the conservative faction in charge of the project considered Smetana a "dangerous modernist", in thrall to avant garde composers such as Liszt and Wagner.
Then Kim showed who was in charge, purging a faction of senior leaders with Soviet connections in 1955 and moving the next year against more than a dozen members of an elite North Korean military group with ties to Mao.
In March, Muhammad Dahlan, a former chief of one of the Palestinian Authority's multifarious secret police organizations, and once a tacit ally of the C.I.A., defended Fatah, the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization, from the charge, made by Hamas, that it had previously recognized Israel's right to exist.
The ruling, which upheld an appellate decision, stems from a 1995 trial of five men charged with murdering four members of a rival faction of a Chinese immigrant smuggling ring in Teaneck in 1993.
