Word: schisms
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...terrorist leading this schism, according to Gonzales and Philippine intelligence, is wanted-criminal Muklis, a former religious teacher from Marawi in central Mindanao who studied Islamic jurisprudence in Pakistan. In 1993, he and al-Ghozi crossed the border into Afghanistan, gaining expertise in explosives and demolitions. After returning to Mindanao, he headed the MILF's Special Operation Group at Camp Bushra. But Muklis always served as a point man for JI within the MILF. According to al-Ghozi's own testimony, Muklis was a principal player in the wave of bomb blasts that tore through Manila...
Nobody embodied the mainstream-niche schism better than Bruce Springsteen and Eminem. (They also showed that mainstream and niche are about sensibility, not sales. Eminem's CD actually moved 5.5 million more copies than Springsteen's, according to SoundScan.) The typical victim in the Twin Towers was a man under 50, from New Jersey or New York, blue collar or not many generations removed from it--in other words, Springsteen's born subject matter. With 2002's tribute album The Rising, Springsteen became the mainstream's Maya Angelou of 9/11: the event's unofficial poet laureate, the articulator...
Creating the sort of confusion perhaps not seen since the papal schism of 1378, two women claim to be the rightful holder of the title of Miss North Carolina. In June REBEKAH REVELS, bottom, won the state pageant and the honor of competing for Miss America. But then a former--and clearly still bitter--boyfriend wrote pageant officials offering to share two topless pictures of Revels he took several years ago (without her knowledge while she was dressing, she claims). Revels resigned, and the crown passed to first runner-up MISTY CLYMER, left. Revels, however, had a change of heart...
...putting all the politically charged questions of poverty and pollution on the agenda of a two-week talk-shop, the Summit inevitably did more to highlight global schisms than to resolve them. There was the traditional "North-South" divide between rich nations and poor nations; the Kyoto signatories (Europeans and the developing world) against the Kyoto skeptics (the Americans and a handful of oil-dependent and -producing nations); and the U.S. vs. the Rest of the World (a schism exacerbated by the Bush administration's unapologetic unilateralism on environmental and other global affairs, underscored by the President's absence from...
...Initially, people thought that there would be a schism in the gay community [after BOND formed],” says Adam A. Sofen ’01, co-chair of the BGLTSA in 1998 and a former Crimson executive. “Today you will see the two organizations publicizing each other’s activities...