Word: rebel
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...instruments and singing about Irish political themes. Irish pop music experts point out that in the past few years the genre has diversified. There's House of Pain, an Irish-American rap group that features b-boy bravado and beer-soaked rhymes ("Coming with the style of a Celtic rebel/ Those that ain't on my level call me the blue-eyed devil"), and the Belfast grunge band Therapy?, whose debut album Nurse wallows in pounding metal rhythms and anarchistic attitude ("I don't need you/ I don't want you/ I don't want to feel anymore"). Earlier this...
...them -- perhaps because they are so close to that state of childishness." Emma's parents were certainly close to her. "Anything I was interested in made them happy," she says. "I had no rebellious stage, because my parents gave me so much freedom that I didn't need to rebel...
...Over the past 20 months, according to captured documents and engineering plans now trickling out of Iraq, the government has nearly completed work on a huge project of four major canals and dozens of dams and embankments that will sap the water from the reeds and open the isolated rebel - strongholds to Iraqi tanks, possibly as early as this summer. "We no longer think of victory," says a Shi'ite leader based in neighboring Iran. "Our rifles are no match for his tanks. If Saddam falls, it will have to be to someone else. We continue to fight simply because...
...Rebel leaders say that because of the encirclement, it is virtually impossible to get supplies into the swamps or evacuate the wounded. Access has been limited to small boats that attempt to steal past Iraqi army positions at night. According to a report prepared for the European Community, the government blockade has brought widespread starvation to the marshes and caused commodity prices to rise by "300 times in the past six months." The blockade is so effective, says the report, that there is not even a black market...
...marsh fighters have given up hope that the Western allies will mount a large-scale rescue. "When we saw the allied jets ignore the guns that were killing us and hit only the missiles that threatened their planes last year, we knew we had been abandoned," said a rebel leader in Tehran...