Word: homegrown
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...signature alt-country band of their generation hit Boston last weekend bearing all of their ambiguous fame. Their show the previous night easily filled the 3,600-plus seats at the Wang Theatre, but it’s easy to imagine the homegrown Wilco felt more comfortable here in a packed gym at Brandeis University’s Shapiro Student Center. The venue even evokes Wilco’s humble beginnings, with bleak bare walls and not a chair in sight...
...still characterizes the insurgency as a loosely organized network that includes former members of the Baath ruling party, homegrown jihadis and foreign terrorists. But interviews with insurgents and materials obtained by TIME suggest that the most active and violent elements of the insurgency now come under the sway of al-Zarqawi and his allies. A series of audiocassettes obtained by TIME provides rare insight into their mind-set. In hours of sermons and "seminars," as they are called, leaders of Attawhid wal Jihad exhort their rank and file to slaughter Iraqis cooperating with the U.S. and the interim government...
...opponents say I'm America's lackey," Musharraf complains. "But I don't have the personality of a lackey. I thought this country was going down, getting destroyed." The President's aides say that Musharraf's tougher tack on homegrown extremists is, if anything, a sign of his own convictions, not a response to Washington. His brushes with death, they say, have infused Musharraf with a sense of destiny. "He's had these miraculous escapes," one aide commented, "And now he genuinely thinks he's the chosen man for Pakistan...
...Chun's world is an apolitical but noisy place where Sonic Youth and REM share the soundscape with homegrown alt-rock bands like Pangu and PK14. It's a world where doting parents indulge their spoiled children?Chun's mother takes her from Beijing to Kaifeng to mingle with SpermOva, a punk band she adores, and stays alone in a guesthouse until Chun is ready to return to Beijing four nights later...
...offensive on "international terrorism," a phrase that invokes al-Qaeda and sidesteps any acknowledgement that Russia may, in part, be reaping the whirlwind of what Putin has sown in Chechnya during his almost five years at the helm. Even in its most explicitly jihadist form, Chechen terrorism is a homegrown affair, although factions of the Chechen separatist movement have received financial and political support from Qaeda-aligned elements abroad - and a handful of Arab mujahedeen have long played a role in the Chechen insurgency. The Russian crackdown, which began late in 1999 as Putin sent in troops to reverse...