The next challenge is to get to Brazil without squads being affected by disputes over bonuses or riven by internecine rivalry, and with a coach who does not quit on the eve of the finals because he is not being paid or is fired because the national FA only believes a European can do the job.
And Mr Putin has hinted once again that he may resume the presidency for two more six-year terms in 2012.Bear marketsThe risk for the Kremlin is not that it will lose control or collapse into internecine fighting Mr Putin's grip is too firm.
Post-revolutionary leaderships can seek ways to institutionalize political power and decision making or degenerate into internecine factional infighting.
It is hard to know if they are building, partying or engaged in an internecine power struggle.
The Republican Party in Texas is split: go back and look at the primaries or at the current internecine race for House speaker.
Its players now include a criminal lawyer and a cheesemonger, an opera writer and a confessional post-punk, no longer engaged in the Britpop wars or the sort of internecine squabbles that excommunicated Coxon from Think Tank, Blur's last album (2003).
(As in: "Right-winging, bitter-clinging, proud clingers of our guns, our God, and our religion, and our Constitution". Or her description of internecine Middle Eastern conflicts as "squirmishes". This is the woman, after all, who gave us the word "refudiate").
What people want to find is evidence of some buzzy internecine feud or conflict with the White House, some career-crippling statement of policy or opinion, some private message in which Clinton says something intemperate about a political opponent, or some tawdry act of State Department-Clinton Global Initiative synergy.
Unlike happy slapping, bumfights, chickfights and the other human cockfights we see these days, Irish bare-knuckle fighting is a traditional, centuries-old way for travellers to settle internecine disputes over land or money or honor.
But some question whether the swift social reorganization risks fueling tensions that could undercut stability in the years ahead, or even lead to intractable internecine war.
