Word: groupe
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...There may be serious limitations on Iran?s electoral process, but within those limitations there?s a real struggle for power between groupings committed to dramatically different visions of Iranian society," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "Second to Israel, Iran may still be the liveliest republican democracy in the Middle East." Even though the conservative Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini ? who controls the security forces, the broadcast media and the religious bodies that vet laws passed by parliament and candidates running for election ? is appointed for life by a closed group of clergy, he still depends to some extent...
Just about five years ago, some young fellows enrolled in a music business course at Stow College collaborated with a group of Scottish musicians to produce an album and release 1,000 copies. The group, which was later signed to a British and then American label, have rapidly put out two LPs and four EPs (members in the band pressing two additional full-length albums as side-projects). In the quasi-fascist recording environment of label-dominated markets, this is almost unheard of production...
...spend any time at all on the Internet, you probably get spam - unsolicited e-mail containing advertising and other unwanted dreck. According to a recent Gartner Group survey, 91% of people online are spammed at least once a week. Usually it's easier just to accept it, like bad weather or mosquitoes. But some people have chosen to make fighting spam their crusade, and this week they're launching a campaign against it, both on your hard drive, and in the courts...
...Three years ago, Israel?s opening of a tunnel entrance near Muslim and Jewish holy sites sparked fierce confrontations throughout the West Bank, in which 50 Palestinians and 15 Israelis were killed. Last January, Israeli police deported members of a Denver-based Christian group who had allegedly been planning to provoke violence in Jerusalem so as to instigate a war between Jews and Arabs that they believed would precede the Second Coming. "Many Christians take the millennium as a signpost for the Second Coming, and that?s increased the immediate tension over the Temple Mount," says Van Biema. "The Israeli...
...simple exercise routines into a package that its followers believe promotes spiritual and moral well-being, and cures illness. Although many of its practices are simply a variation on the age-old Chinese Qi Gong belief, the authorities may be particularly threatened by the practitioners? fierce loyalty to the group?s New York-based founder, Li Hongzhi. The Communist party presents itself as the country?s supreme moral authority, and isn?t about to tolerate competition ?- particularly from a group whose leader believes computers, airplanes and other symptoms of modernity were introduced by aliens seeking to enslave the human spirit...