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...literary” magazine-turned-art-collective which Pasternack calls a “life band.” While they do produce a magazine—the premier issue was released last year and there will be a second release this month—the bulk of their activity involves staging “happenings” on campus...
...political groups have thus far kept their distance from the new order. That has created a situation where the insurgents have the loudest Sunni voice in the current political landscape. Although the spectacular terror strikes of the Zarqawi-led al-Qaeda faction may get the most headlines, the bulk of the insurgency is believed to be composed of Sunni fighters motivated by a combination of nationalist and Islamist sentiments and led by mid-level intelligence and military operatives of the old regime. They have systematically targeted the building blocks of stability for a new order: the nascent Iraqi security forces...
...Optimists hope that the creation of the new government may begin to reverse the insurgency's momentum, but it may be some time before the new political order attracts the support of the bulk of the Sunnis. The insurgents, by repeatedly and consistently demonstrating their considerable capability for violent disruption, hope to convince the Sunnis that they needn't settle for the minority stake in power being offered by Jaafari. And the very fact that the new government feels compelled to try and accommodate them despite their absence at the polls may reinforce that perception...
American contractors like Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Northrop Grumman still share the bulk of U.S. defense spending, of course. But waves of consolidation have narrowed the domestic field to a small--and, critics say, often uncompetitive--number of major players. And even those firms are looking abroad: Boeing, the world's top aerospace firm and the U.S.'s biggest exporter (2004 revenues: $52 billion), outsources jet components to Japan and Italy. "It's not just a clich to say the world is getting smaller," says Mark Ronald, CEO of the U.S. arm of BAE Systems...
...city is suing Moreno and the Angels for violating the spirit of a 1996 agreement with prior team owner Disney. The city conceded the bulk of revenue sharing with the Angels in exchange for the Anaheim label (the team was called the California Angels from 1965, the year before it moved from Los Angeles to Anaheim, through 1996). "He's stepping on the little guy, the taxpayer," says Pringle, who claims that under the pre-1996 contract the city would have received $11.5 million more from the team last season. The Angels note that Anaheim is still in the title...