31.   Schneider says the shift ultimately may bring more women into Republican ranks.

32.   She has been a steadfast supporter of Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., who in return has backed her rise in the Republican ranks.

33.   Some of her energies will be sapped by the opposition that will surely coalesce against her in conservative Republican ranks, just because of who she is.

34.   Such promises have brought some sharp fissures to the Republican ranks that last year elected Bush.

35.   That dismal showing has touched off a simmering war of recrimination in the Republican ranks.

36.   The chairman of the Republican National Committee met with Pat Buchanan on Tuesday and made his own appeal not to bolt the party and fracture Republican ranks.

37.   The dispute has ignited a form of class warfare in the Republican ranks.

38.   The Democrats formally assumed control of the Senate on Wednesday, achieving a slim majority through the defection of Sen. James Jeffords of Vermont from the Republican ranks.

39.   The departure from Republican ranks of Patrick J. Buchanan and his followers also muted the voices of conservatives who were more critical of Israel.

40.   The division between the two sides revealed a fissure in the Republican ranks that is likely to grow.