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...girls get married and change their names," says Ruth Graham, "but the boys are stuck with Graham." Franklin (William Franklin III), 41, and Ned (Nelson Edman), 35, caused their parents anguish in their rebellious search for what Ruth calls "their own identities." But now that their period of rebellion is over, the question is whether one might reprise his father's role when Billy passes from the evangelical scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will a Son Also Rise? | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

...play recounts two parallel plots which merge in the conclusion. While the peasants of the wee Spanish hamlet of Fuente Ovejuna groan under the rapine yoke of their wicked overlord, Fernando Gomez de Guzman, that same overlord joins in a rebellion against their Catholic Majesties, Ferdinand and Isabella, of fifth-grade history fame. But in the spheres of both high politics and human resources, Fernando "Hubris" Gomez oversteps the limit, with positively diabolic consequences...

Author: By Edward P. Mcbride, | Title: The Speedy Rise and Fall of Fuente Ovejuna | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

...what one might choose to do in bed with a consenting partner" is a matter of indifference, as the BGLSA now claims, isolated from the rest of one's life, it cannot at the same time be a radical act of "queer" rebellion against society. The BGLSA cannot have it both ways...

Author: By Christopher B. Brown, | Title: Homosexuality's Frustration and Shame | 10/26/1993 | See Source »

...violence. Moscow turned into an open-air shooting range for Rutskoi's ragtag army of Communists, neo-Nazis and just plain hooligans dedicated to restoring the old Soviet Union. They came close to seizing the levers of power, but Yeltsin dispatched tanks to shell the parliament and quashed the rebellion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red October | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

...deep and growing hatred for Egypt because he felt his country offered little hope for his generation's future. Despite its poverty, Abouhalima's family was several cuts above the norm, which may have created an expectation in the $ young man that a better life was obtainable. His rebellion began in small ways. He started to smoke, but never once lit a cigarette in front of his stern father, a powerful weight lifter who would have disapproved. As a teenager, Abouhalima began to hang around with members of the outlawed al- Jama'a Islamiyya, or Islamic Group, which considered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret Life of Mahmud the Red | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

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