Word: offshoots
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...failure (see Free Ride, below). The Loop is about the problems of success: Sam (Bret Harrison, near right) is an airline exec in his 20s whose roommates' idea of a big deadline is still last call at the bar. The jokes can be broad (e.g., the airline starts an offshoot called Jack; if you can't guess where the dirty puns go from there, you don't watch much Fox). But Harrison shows Topher Gracean charm as a guy stuck between adolescence and adulthood, and Philip Baker Hall (Magnolia) steals every scene as his gruff, insensitive boss. If the writing...
Virtually no one foresaw Hamas' surge. Pre-election polls generally gave Hamas, which was founded in 1987 as an offshoot of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, about a third of the vote. But when election day dawned, voters leaped at the chance to rid themselves of the incompetent and corrupt Fatah. "It's not that we love Hamas, but we didn't want Fatah anymore," says Samer Bafrawi, 26, a West Bank restaurateur. "It's a bad organization"--bad enough that he voted for the Islamists even though he says he is "not really religious at all." It was Hamas' commitment...
...Munich spectacular was designed to be just that. Black September was an unacknowledged offshoot of Fatah, Yasser Arafat's faction within the Palestine Liberation Organization (P.L.O.). Abu Iyad, the Arafat deputy who headed Black September, later explained that the hostage taking was meant "to use the unprecedented number of media outlets in one city to display the Palestinian struggle--for better or worse...
...clamoring for a foot in the door. Aksara's new role as a cultural producer is part of the allure. It recently launched a book on Indonesian architecture under its own imprint, and it's now working on a TV show about the creative process. Aksara Records, an offshoot, is about to release its eighth CD and recently entered into a distribution deal with Universal Music Group Indonesia. None of these works are designed to appeal to a mass audience, but that isn't the point. "Aksara is more about the choice of music, the people and their vision," says...
...Aksara's new role as a cultural producer is part of the allure. It recently launched a book on Indonesian architecture under its own imprint, and it's now working on a TV show about the creative process. Aksara Records, an offshoot, is about to release its eighth CD and recently entered into a distribution deal with Universal Music Group Indonesia. None of these works are designed to appeal to a mass audience but that isn't the point. "Aksara is more about the choice of music, the people and their vision," says Daniel Tumiwa, Universal's marketing director...