Word: rebel
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...self-conscious film about filmmaking in the years after the defeat of the Nazis. Other films in the series include the German valentine to American jazz, Fanfares of Love, which Billy Wilder recast as Some Like It Hot a few years later, and The Hooligans, about youth rebelling against their Nazi-generation parents, a movie which resembles Rebel Without A Cause.While some of these films seem similar to Hollywood products of the Cold War era, many manifest a uniquely German struggle to create a new post-war national identity. Heimatfilms, which celebrate the German landscape as a lush geographical, cultural...
While leaders of Iraqi rebel groups in the south make grand predictions of a spontaneous Shi'ite-and Iraqi-army uprising against Saddam, many of them are refusing to join forces with the Americans. Sheik Jamal al-Wakil of the Islamic Accord Movement, an opposition Shi'ite group, says there is widespread distrust of the U.S. because coalition forces did nothing to stop Saddam's brutal suppression of the Shi'ites' 1991 and 1995 uprisings, even though it was George Bush Sr. who encouraged them. "There is no need for any communication with the Americans," says the Syria-based...
...RUSSIA Faced with the threat of a Russian veto in the Security Council, the State Department designated three Chechen rebel groups as "terrorist organizations," a step Moscow had been urging. But what Russia really needs is a guarantee of oil contracts in a post-Saddam Iraq and a repayment of $8 billion that Iraq owes Russia...
...think your image needs improving since the accident? No. I was a rebel, but I'm not anymore. Not because I've changed but because back then, I was the only (entertainer) speaking out, saying it straight. But now it's not only me, there are a lot of other guys who will do the same. I might have been one of the first guys, but I'm not a rebel, I'm just a truth speaker. All those people who don't tell the truth suck...
...airport in the southern island of Mindanao killed 21 people, including an American missionary. Authorities said that one of the dead was a member of the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), who they believed was carrying the bomb, which exploded prematurely. The MILF, the country's biggest Muslim rebel group, denied responsibility for the attack. Face-Off in the Sky NORTH KOREA The U.S. began to dispatch long-range bombers to the Pacific island of Guam following the interception of an American spy plane in international air space by North Korean fighter jets. Tensions between Pyongyang and Washington, stemming...