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...Police transported a resident of Cabot House to University Health Services for treatment of a large splinter in her buttocks...
...concerns is the leakage of arms from the IRA to [splinter] groups," Trimble said...
...referred to the Aug. 1998 bombing in Omagh, which killed 29 people, and was conducted by the Real IRA, an IRA splinter group, which used IRA arms...
Meaning what? The anarchist movement today is a sprawling welter of thousands of mostly young activists populating hundreds of mostly tiny splinter groups espousing dozens of mostly socialist critiques of the capitalist machine. Ironically, the groups are increasingly organized; the Pacific Northwest in particular, with its unionist past, grungy youth-culture present and ever Green future, is an anarchist hotbed. Add to that the hundreds of under-25ers from San Francisco to Vancouver who spent months learning nonviolent civil disobedience from groups like the Ruckus Society and the Direct Action Network. "The WTO," notes Ruckus Society coordinator Han Shan, "gave...
...behaving in the same manner as heterosexuals, and until people lose their actual fear of gay and lesbian sex while maintaining a pretense of political and cultural liberalism, the BGTLSA's militancy is a necessary and vital political force on campus. It would be unfortunate if it were to splinter due to the vague feeling of discomfort that some prospective members have at the organization's vigorous assertions of homosexual social equality...