Word: rebellion
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...last year. Williams edged out Amherst as the best liberal-arts college. Again, just like the list that came out 12 months ago. Except for one dramatic shift (which I will get to shortly), the new rankings don't look much different from previous lists, despite the recent organized rebellion against the magazine's long-criticized method of pitting school against school. So far this year, 62 college presidents have signed a letter pledging to stop filling out the U.S. News reputational survey, which accounts for 25% of a school's overall score...
...some of the faithful still think he's in seclusion, holding out for a second coming - quickly became more valuable as a memory than he ever was as a singer or movie star or Vegas action figure or living proof of the marketability of youthful rebellion. Every year on his birthday (Jan. 8) and death date, new packages of his old music and movies are snapped up as instant relics by his venerable fans, even as they attract kids who hadn't been born when he was just the King on earth...
...will be safer, and so will the 1.8 million displaced people living in camps in Sudan. But to impose peace on all of Darfur would require a force several times larger, and with a mandate to attack militias and confiscate guns. The war has mutated. It began as a rebellion by two local movements; the government responded by arming Arab-speaking militias who attacked civilian communities of the same ethnicity as the rebels. Today the rebel movements and the militias have splintered, and more than 20 gangs range across the harsh terrain seeking loot and land. Now, thanks...
...that's hardly the end of the story. The Supreme Court has agreed to review the Military Commissions Act, and things don't look good for Bush. The act's opponents argue essentially that it can't overcome the Constitution's bar to suspending habeas except in cases of "rebellion or invasion," conditions that, no matter how dramatically the President may portray the war on terrorism, don't exist. The act's supporters counter that the constitutional provision doesn't apply to people held outside the U.S., in places like Guantanamo...
...over the Koran. Oscillating between Baghdad and London in the years 1998 and 2005, the play skillfully dramatizes the tug between two locations and two states of mind in the central character of Salim, a bisexual doctor who has just penned a controversial novel entitled Masturbating Angels, partially in rebellion against his Iraqi heritage. Though initially in favor of the invasion, Salim returns to Iraq with his friends for a wedding to find the country slowly descending into chaos, virtually unrecognizable from the childhood memories of peaceful neighborhoods and starry night skies he rhapsodized about in London...