Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long-time advocate of pre-registration for classes, at the beginning of each semester I try to rebel against shopping period as much as possible. I pick out my four classes in advance, attend them, and usually find that I have picked right. Occasionally, a day or two into shopping period, I hear about another course that everyone likes and substitute it for one of my earlier choices. Long before study card day, though, I am ready for the semester, books in hand and sections finalized. I occasionally envy my peers who discover great new classes while shopping, but tell...
Lucas' craftsmanship shines with particular brilliance in the final half hour of the film. Besides the stunning special effects that the director calls upon to underscore the urgency of this concluding sequence, Lucas masterfully builds up the suspense to a shattering pitch as one rebel craft after another falls prey to the marauding pilots of the imperial forces. The toll of casualties among the rebels keeps adding up until one lone plane remains; naturally, it is manned by Luke Skywalker (Hamill), the naive twenty-year-old enraptured by Princess Leia's beauty who seeks to avenge the death...
LIMA, Peru: Peru's seven-week hostage crisis moved closer to resolution after a three-hour meeting between mediators and Tupac Amaru rebels to set the agenda for negotiations with government representatives. Emerging from the Japanese ambassador's residence early Thursday afternoon, Roman Catholic Archbishop Juan Luis Cipriani said that "we are headed toward finding the light of a peaceful solution." Cipriani did not say whether a definite date for talks had been set, but noted that efforts to free the 72 remaining hostages had "advanced positively." President Alberto Fujimori had welcomed the meeting, saying that it "will help...
KINSHASA, Zaire: An official close to Zaire's Defense Ministry claims that more than 2,500 Ugandan soldiers, backed by tanks, are headed toward the city of Beni in eastern Zaire. According to the official, the Ugandans are trying to join rebel forces as they brace for a counterattack by Zairian army troops massed to the west at Kisangani. Although Zaire's government has frequently complained that Ugandan and Rwandan soldiers are fighting alongside rebels, it now appears that the country's army has recruited some outside help of its own. The unnamed official insists that uniformed men filmed...
...percent counted; official results are expected today. Maskhadov masterminded the daring offensive last August to retake Grozny and bring the Russians to the peace table. He negotiated the deal that made Monday's elections possible. But the Chechens' overwhelming choice of Maskhadov over rival Shamil Basayev, a young rebel leader, shows political savvy in equal parts to gratitude. Moscow considers Basayev a terrorist for his 1995 hostage-taking raid on a southern Russian town, while Maskhadov is seen by Russia as the least of separatist evils. "Maskhadov will not press the problem of recognizing independence for Chechnya immediately...