To judge by the titbits that have appeared in the Italian press, describing shadowy factions linked by sexual orientation or financial machinations, it is bound to be a disturbing read.Whatever combination of factors prompted Benedict XVI to step down on February 11th, almost everybody agrees that infighting in the curia has been surging out of control.
In Vienna on Saturday, diplomats from the region and from Europe, the United States and Russia agreed to press the various factions they back in Syria's civil war to come together no later than Jan . 1to begin talks on forming a transitional government.
More significant, perhaps, is the way Nkandla is being used by Zuma's internal party rivals, political allies and breakaway factions to press for a more wide-ranging governance shake-up.
When Stalin's daughter, Svetlana (Andrea Riseborough), turns up at the dacha, Beria, Khrushchev, and the others run out of the woods, where they've been muttering in mini-factions, to press their condolences upon her.
In Nairobi he tracked her down and was surprised to learn she was the official press secretary for the faction.
Last October, a faction pressed him, on grounds of ill health, to make way for Bishop Andrian.
Given what we know of how certain factions of the press behave when they feel someone has done them over – and I refer you to my colleague Nick Davies' exposé of the working practices at the News of the World if you don't – you can hardly blame her.
Pressed by Yasir Arafat, 13 Palestinian factions, including Hamas, drafted a unity platform that could be interpreted to signal an end to attacks on civilians within Israel.
Matty Roth, a young, politically naïve reporter who finds himself stranded in the middle of the DMZ, tries to figure out how the city is surviving under fire, not to mention how he's going to survive, given that every heavily armed faction wants the press to act as its propaganda organ.
Brigadier Rowley Manns, acting GoC of South-eastern District, said at a press conference: "Whatever part or faction of the IRA claim this battle honour, it is completely negated, is it not, this war as they call it, that has been waged against a chaplain and innocent women?" The blast which tore apart the headquarters mess of the 16th Parachute Brigade came at 12.40 p.m. on a grey, drizzly day.
