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...Sayyaf itself is a tiny radical offshoot of a larger secessionist guerrilla movement. The Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) launched its insurgency in the 1970s, pressing for independence for the Muslim population of the southern regions of Mindanao and Palwan, who make up some 5 percent of the population of the predominantly Catholic Philippines. It is not the separatist insurgency that has put the Philippines on the U.S. anti-terrorism radar, but rather the links between Abu Sayyaf and Osama bin Laden's organization...
...unexpected offshoot of the war on terrorism, border-related spats have surfaced between the U.S. and Canada in the month since the attacks. Some Americans, citing reports that at least five of the September 11th hijackers entered the U.S. via Canadian borders, accuse Canadian immigration workers of inexcusable laxity. Many in Washington are convinced that Canada is what stands between the U.S. and a truly effective immigration policy. There is a proposal circulating in D.C. that would triple the number of border police along the Canadian border, where, according to the Attorney General's office, only 500 U.S. officers...
Kurt Cobain and Nirvana were to the Olympia indie-cum-grunge scene what Malcolm McLaren and the Sex Pistols were to punk rock—what began as an esoteric musical offshoot of political turmoil (in the case of punk, economic and social turmoil in late-1970’s Britain; in the case of indie, rebellion against traditional gender roles in music and disdain towards the mass marketing of an art form) was deliberately sold as bandwagon rebellion. As Bart Simpson said while the Smashing Pumpkins played in front of him at Lollapalooza, “making teenagers depressed...
...Story calls it "Spaghetti Junction" - has made it difficult for outside investors such as fund managers, corporate raiders or acquisitive foreign companies to gain power within Italian firms. For decades, Mediobanca has been very much the senior partner in this arrangement. The bank was founded in 1946 as an offshoot of Banca Commerciale Italiana, one of the grandes dames of Italian finance, to provide medium-term credit to industry during postwar reconstruction. Mediobanca steadily built relation- ships and acquired shares, winning seats in the county's top boardrooms. By the 1980s, it was said that practically any deal in Italy...
That situation is starting to change. And with it, just maybe, so is TV's status as an art form. Suddenly TV's past is everywhere. The all-reruns TV Land, the offshoot of Nickelodeon's Nick at Nite franchise, has increased tenfold in the past five years by offering shows like The Donna Reed Show and The Love Boat, while the fast-growing Game Show Network revives the leisure-suited splendor of Match Game and Tattle Tales. Thanks to cable's ravenous maw for content, more diverse and complex shows are entering the rerun canon. Cartoon Network (which, like...