Word: rebel
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Willie Nelson Rebel Roots: Abbott, Texas Reggae Sound: On his July release, Countryman, Nelson covers Jimmy Cliff with twang. Island Cred: Says cannabis should be legal and shared on the tour...
...Block will meet its match when Blake faces Agassi tomorrow. The crowd loves Blake, his youthful enthusiasm, his inspirational energy—but it also loves Agassi, the rebel-turned-family man and two-time U.S. Open champion...
...services are embarrassed because they have spent vast sums over six years but they still can't catch Basayev, and here he is talking to a journalist." ANDREI BABITSKY, journalist, on Moscow's decision to bar U.S.-based abc News from Russia after it broadcast his interview with Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev...
...mourners gathered in southern Sudan to bid farewell to John Garang, many Sudanese were still struggling to understand what his death means for their country. Garang led the southern rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement (splm) during its 21-year war against the northern Arab-dominated government in Khartoum, and helped to negotiate the power-sharing agreement between the north and the south that brought the conflict to a close early this year. Three weeks ago, 60-year-old Garang arrived in Khartoum to take up his new job as Sudan's Vice President. He died last week when...
DIED. JOHN GARANG, 60, Sudanese rebel leader turned Vice President and key negotiator of a fledgling peace agreement between the Islamist government and Christian rebels in the south that, if completed, will end the longest civil war in African history; after his helicopter crashed in southern Sudan...