Word: underground
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...their nemesis: Napster, the original file-sharing service, but to no avail. Their first online ventures, MusicNet and PressPlay, were disasters, largely because the labels didn't trust their users--or one another. High subscription fees and poor selections turned off would-be customers; most skulked off to the underground services, such as Kazaa and Limewire, which had sprung up after Napster's demise...
...John Makumbe, a professor of political science at the University of Zimbabwe in Harare. "They want to close them down. Any voice that is not a ZANU-PF voice is harmful to ZANU-PF, that is their thinking." The crackdown is forcing the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) underground. The party is reorganizing its communication structure, relying more on door-to-door campaigning and radio stations that beam broadcasts in from outside the country. Seven months ago, wishful reports from within and outside Zimbabwe suggested that Mugabe, 79, a freedom fighter turned dictator, might finally be close to stepping...
DiSalvo, though often disenchanted by the arts community at Harvard, refuses to be written out of it. Founder of the underground poetry group “The Hallway,” she remains faithful in encouraging other writers on campus, minus some of the usual analytic conventions...
According to HUDS spokesperson Alex McNitt, budget constraints prevent the immediate renovation of the Mather and Dunster facilities, which are linked by an underground kitchen...
...also very difficult to monitor the food supply from the underground kitchen, according to Mayer...