Cliché corner   

"We are already plagued by too many public people who exploit the fault lines of race and gender to grab the spotlight and win elections." ( Newsday )

"It is perhaps the price of living on the fault line where the American dream grinds against the American reality." ( New York Times )

"Is the linguistic fault lin e that has run through all of Quebec's votes over the past 25 years a permanent fixture and one we have to live with?" ( Montreal Gazette )

"You see the fault lines in perception between white and black, which raises all the dark questions of the meanest, toughest story in the country, which is racism." ( Atlanta Journal & Constitution )

"All the huffing and puffing makes compelling entertainment for political junkies, but it reflects a disquieting fault line in our political system." ( Providence
Journal-Bulletin )

From more than 170 references in October.