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...nearby city of Mozodokin. Moscow blamed the bombing on Chechen Islamic extremists. This, the third such bombing in less than a month, came after the Kremlin-backed government in Chechnya said the situation in the province was stabilizing. Peace Talks Break Down LIBERIA President Charles Taylor remained defiant as rebel forces attacked Monrovia and peace talks between the government and rebels were postponed. Taylor was indicted for war crimes by a U.N.-backed court in neighboring Sierra Leone and charged with supporting guerrillas during the country's own brutal 10-year civil war, which ended in 2002. During peace talks...
...nation faces a slew of daunting challenges, from constructing a viable economy to repairing lives ravaged by more than 20 years of violence and misery. None have endured more than the former members of the guerrilla group Falintil, those most responsible for liberating East Timor. For two decades these defiant fighters clung to what President Xanana Gusmao, himself a former guerrilla leader, once called the "sacred ideal" of independence. Now that they have achieved it, these same men are struggling to find a place in the country they helped create. Many are maimed and traumatized, or find themselves without...
...political at all. It therefore seems rather strange that the BGLTSA should appropriate a variety of political actions proper to—and effective in—very different historical circumstances. Kiss-ins, for example, were once a form of direct action that gave voice to a defiant and threatened sexuality—as in the infamous series of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) kiss-ins at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The BGLTSA’s kiss-in, by contrast, was an exercise in timidity, an attempt to normalize same-sex affection as a part...
...album’s great achievements is that it portrays an invisible, ongoing transition in mainstream hip-hop: from ghetto-fabulous rebellion to upper crust complacency. On “Fader Party” the Majesticons play defiant street rappers as they “count the funds / count my guns / count my sons / count my clout / count you out.” But by the time “Platinum BlaQue” arrives, they’ve begun to assimilate: “New Republic on the table with the New York Times / Used to read The Nation...
...center of the power game knew their lives had changed. At the Naval Research Laboratory, which was in charge of America's entry in the space race, Project Vanguard, the engineers bathed the roof in searchlights so they could adjust their radio dishes to pick up the defiant beep from Sputnik, the 184-lb. intruder that had not only humiliated the U.S. but ratcheted up the cold war. The Soviet rockets obviously were bigger and better than we knew...