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...transformation of Morissette's persona that makes Jagged Little Pill so intriguing. Rebellion--against society, against one's past--is, after all, the essence of rock. When, on Right Through You, she sings, "You took me for a joke/ You took me for a child/ You took a long hard look at my ass/ And then played golf for a while," it's as startling as Chelsea Clinton with a Mohawk. Morissette's anguished, sometimes screechy voice is the sound of postadolescent independence. She's in the driver's seat...
...himself cannily used the proposal to forge a much stronger alloy out of the angry, disaffected core of Republicans and independents, of voters who hate politics, hate politicians, hate the media and hate political media most of all. In essence he has taken up the banner of the Perot rebellion, but with a more upscale, libertarian theme. "The flat tax is symbolic," argues Brian Kennedy, state chairman of the Iowa G.O.P. "It's not so much that they're hooked into the proposal, as the end of the tax system. The way they see it, that's special interests lobbying...
Like many politicians and privileged sons of his era, Forbes avoided the major conflict of his generation, the Vietnam War, by enlisting in the National Guard. His idea of cultural rebellion was to decline to join one of Princeton's exclusive eating clubs. As second-in-command at his family's publishing empire, the Wall Street Journal reported last week, Forbes did not act on suggestions that his father, widely rumored to be bisexual, had propositioned male employees. When two squabbling secretaries did not want to work side by side in his outer office, his solution was to build...
...when Tutsi soldiers assassinated Melchior Ndadaye, a Hutu and the country's first democratically elected President, after he threatened to bring an end to 30 years of Tutsi domination. The killing triggered an orgy of revenge; some 50,000 Burundians died in 1993 alone. It also spawned a Hutu rebellion--and a Tutsi army crackdown--which continues to this day. Though a coalition government, composed of senior politicians from both ethnic groups, was formed under international pressure in 1994, its members remain hamstrung by tribal loyalties, unable and often unwilling to stop the bloodshed. Observes a Western diplomat in Bujumbura...
Russia's pernicious internal rebellion, however, is the most serious nettle for Yeltsin's presidential prospects. Thirteen months of war there has cost 30,000 lives, left 600,000 homeless and deeply undermined the public's confidence in both its politicians and its military leadership. With the new hostage crisis came television images of frightened, exhausted women and children peering from the shattered windows of rebel buses, all of which stoked Russians' anger about the war--and Yeltsin's inability to end it. The main point of his televised scolding of the generals was to deflect that discontent toward...