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...smiling, defiant Arafat was cheered by hundreds of Palestinians as he toured the Gaza sites hit by rockets...
...past, Milosevic's opponents have usually defeated only themselves. An assortment of dissident parties won municipal elections in the winter of 1996-97 and mounted three months of daily street demonstrations to try to make their defiant ruler concede defeat. But the drive to topple the tyrant lost all steam when egocentric opposition leaders turned on one another, then squandered public trust by cutting personal deals with the regime. Kostunica will need to display uncommon skill and perseverance just to keep his argumentative alliance intact...
...putting together more than 40 boys with this many needs for 10 months at a time, supervised by 12 low-paid faculty, can be risky. Last year, after the school's director fired three popular African-American dorm counselors, the boys became increasingly defiant. At one point they surrounded and threatened a teacher. Seventeen of the 44 boys were sent home...
...establishing a religion or preventing the free exercise of religious beliefs. One of the requisites for religious liberty is the unbending separation of church and state. Your article about organized prayer at football games suggested that the students in North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas believe they are being defiant when they pray on game night. There is nothing defiant about their behavior. I strongly support the right of all people to express their religious faith. As soon as a school begins to aid in their efforts, however, the school officially endorses the underlying message, and the constitutional separation...
...There has also been a remarkable turnaround in Brazilian public opinion about the rain forest. In 1989, then President Jos? Sarney was defensive and defiant about criticism of Brazil?s failure to protect the Amazon; last June, by contrast, an outpouring of popular protest forced the Brazilian Congress to drop a plan to reduce from 80% to 50% the amount of forest to be set aside as nature preserves in future Amazonian development projects. Among the most vocal opponents of the rollback was Jos? Sarney Filho, the federal Environment Minister and son of the pro-development former President. In Acre...