Word: rebel
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Enter the energetic and ambitious Professor Harold H. Koh ’75, who is now the dean of Yale Law School. Spurred by a varied group of Yale law students—including a rebel and a Rhodes Scholar—Koh filed suit against the U.S. in a Brooklyn federal district court. He argued that the Haitians had a right to counsel and that the government was illegally denying him access to his clients. The Justice Department struck back with the same argument that had convinced the Atlanta appeals court...
...They had people in the background running around with rebel flags tied around their necks like they were Superman,” Vincent says...
...vote, in Sri Lanka's presidential election last Friday could determine whether the strife-ridden country sinks deeper into conflict. The signs are not good: a four-year cease-fire with the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam is under severe strain, with internal conflict in the rebel-controlled east and political killings blamed on the Tigers in the Sinhalese south. Rajapakse, 60, who says the peace process has been too soft on the Tigers, proposes ripping up the agreement and starting talks from scratch. Sri Lanka's stock market plunged 7% in a day on news of his victory...
...that requires some adaptation. But if this use of language can be annoying at first, it quickly becomes extremely engaging, lively, and believable as Agu’s original voice. The spontaneous and dynamic narration causes an early attachment to Agu. When he does begin to kill alongside the rebel fighters, the result is a surprising complicity: The reader feels his guilt. The narrative commences in the midst of an extremely violent and inexplicable war, during which his mother and sister flee and his father is killed. Agu is then abducted by a second group, rebel fighters who force...
...knees buckle under and my heart rate rise. Since sophomore year of high school when I fell for a tall senior who brought illicit substances to Saturday night dances, played the guitar (Dylan. Attempts at Dylan.), and seemed never to study, I’ve opted for the rebel over Mr. Right. There was a second musician: we discussed spirituality over Chinese take-out and watched reruns of “The Simpsons” while analyzing Shakespeare. He wrote existentialist poetry, listened to the Grateful Dead, and taught me to skateboard during our lunch hour. I managed to keep...