Word: rebel
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When spring comes to the Balkans, so do the rockets, the bullets and the artillery shells. In Croatia the cease-fire brokered by the U.N. in January 1992 has just suffered its most egregious breach yet. In Bosnia the Muslim-dominated Bosnian government and the rebel Serbs have both spent the winter arming and training. A four-month-old cease-fire between them expired on May 1. It had begun to break down weeks before, and with the warm weather, the conflict between the parties is sure to intensify. Meanwhile, the nearly 40,000 U.N. peacekeepers in the region...
...that so many first-years at Harvard dye their hair? Maybe it's the urge to rebel against years of studious restraint. Or against the monotony of Harvard style, replete with J. Crew corduroys, Urban Outfitter sweaters and dirty-white Cornell Lacrosse baseball caps. Whatever it is, the Yard abounds with colorful coiffures...
...first thing that people see and a major way they form judgments or opinions of you... If people don't judge you by it, that's a really good sign," says Summer. "Older and more traditional people perceive of people with dyed hair as the druggie-rebel type, not the smart type, so you have to prove yourself above and beyond to them." Summer does not believe her unconventional colors always shed negative light on her character, though, and Workman agrees. "My hair has served as an ice-breaker in many situations. It makes for very friendly conversations," she claims...
...population of Wyoming Valley sought to secede from Pennsylvania and form its own state. The executive council answered that challenge with orders to a unit of the state's militia to arrest their leader. We found ourselves in a similar situation under different circumstances in different times. [Chechen rebel leader Jokhar] Dudayev had launched an armed rebellion with the goal of destroying the integrity of the Russian Federation. Hence coercion by the state was used...
...clergyman." I am the former head of the Society of Biblical Literature, a Guggenheim fellow and a senior Fulbright scholar. I have written a dozen books and more than 100 published articles and have taught at several well-respected universities. The Jesus Seminar Fellows are similarly downgraded to just "rebel scholars." The roster in The Five Gospels shows that the group includes some of the most accomplished biblical scholars of our time. You erroneously report that the Jesus Seminar found that Jesus did not rise from the dead. In fact, we concluded that the Resurrection of Jesus had nothing...