But many conservatives, in particular in the CSU, still regard the Greens as unreliable hippies, especially now that they are gazing at their navels and temporarily leaderless.
Yet it is a bad time for Nigeria to be leaderless.
After months of bickering, the talks have broken down in rancour, leaving the WTO leaderless since May 1st.
Few doubt their will to fight to the end.Syria's opposition is diffuse and still leaderless.
The WTO was leaderless from May until September, when Mike Moore took over; his deputies were appointed only a few weeks before the Seattle meeting.
For the last week much of the opposition movement has been virtually leaderless.
But Mr Sageman, a senior fellow at the Philadelphia-based Foreign Policy Research Institute, explodes each of these myths, and others besides, in an unsettling account of how al-Qaeda has evolved from the organisation headed by Osama bin Laden into an amorphous movement a "leaderless jihad".Mr Sageman is a leading advocate of what is called the "buddy" theory of terrorism.
Slate also says the bombing may not have succeeded even if the bomb had exploded correctly.Expect to hear a lot about the fact that America's Transportation Security Administration is currently leaderless.
The country feels leaderless: the president, Dilma Rousseff, has been weakened by a mammoth scandal at Petrobras, the state-controlled oil company, as well as by the economy's dismal performance.
But "Black Blocs"—shifting, leaderless youths who march dressed in black, hooded and masked, and seek violent confrontation with the police have no such qualms.Esther Solano of the Federal University of São Paulo has interviewed self-identified Black Blocs.
He is evidently trying to lock up the "agitators," white and black, as a preliminary to restoring full police control, on the assumption that the masses will then be too leaderless to resist.The basic nature of South Africa's racial struggle is revealed in this pattern of reactions.
