Word: rebel
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...home of the Buchanan clan was next to godliness. Bay, whose given name is Angela, the younger daughter in a family of seven boys and two girls, gets her nickname from the mispronunciation of her older brothers: she was the "bay-bay." Within the family, Bay was more the rebel than Pat. After getting her master's degree in mathematics and working on Nixon's re-election committee, she was so disillusioned by Watergate that she upped and moved to Australia. When she converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and married a Mormon lawyer...
...Republicans decided long ago that too much democracy is a dangerous thing when it comes to nominating a President. In the next four weeks the game of presidential politics turns very serious, very unforgiving and very unpopulist. It's affirmative action for party elders; if a rebel like Buchanan wants to be President, he could do twice as well as anyone else and find that even that might not be enough...
Different measures might indeed prove more practical. Western nations could help shut down a Zaire-based rebel radio station that is consistently urging the overthrow of the coalition government. More U.N. monitors, with adequate protection, could be sent to the country to report on human-rights abuses. Perhaps most important, the West could take meaningful steps to increase pressure on extremists still serving in the government and the army. These are not new ideas. Yet so far, due to a lack of support from member nations, the U.N. has managed only a minimal response. Last year Ntibantunganya requested 127 human...
...nihilism. I see my work as part of a greater movement to reclaim law and politics for the people. We took on despots in the eighteenth century and robber barons in the nineteenth. Now in the twentieth and into the twenty-first, we are called to rebel against another great, illegitimate concentration of power--the corporation...
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA: A truck packed with explosives drove into Sri Lanka's central bank today, killing at least 53 people and wounding 1,400. Sri Lankan authorities are blaming Tamil Tiger rebels for the explosion, which caused the bank and several other buildings to burst into flames. The fires blazed for most of the day, making rescue attempts difficult. If it was a rebel attack, it was one of the worst in their 12-year campaign for an independent homeland. Nearly 40,000 people have been killed in the fighting. The worst attack occurred in October 1994, when...