Word: rebellion
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...least among the department's troubles is a near rebellion brewing at its main investigative agency, the FBI, where director William Sessions has been accused of abusing the perquisites of his office. A stinging report last month by the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility included charges that he received preferential treatment on a home mortgage, allowed his wife to accompany him on 111 trips without compensating the government for her travel expenses, and flew a load of firewood on an FBI plane, among other offenses. To answer complaints of a double standard within the bureau, last month, shortly...
...doubt, this rebellion will be hastened when the Saudis realize that women have something more to contribute to civil society other than their breast milk...
According to Mark Heller, a visiting professor at Harvard last year, Saudi society (and, presumably, many others like it) will begin to face social crises of this sort, but with much larger dimensions. Heller predicted an imminent social conflagration, a rebellion against these traditional values within five to 10 years...
Should other women from Saudi Arabia follow her route to Canada, this brave Saudi woman might end up setting of the furies of rebellion. You read it here first...
...will want to put me behind her, as I should have let her do years ago." Years ago and books ago. Brookner has built a reputation as Britain's foremost novelist of sensibility. Her books are true to their subjects and scrupulously written. But there comes a time when rebellion flares in the reader, who knows by now that it will take the daughter the entire narrative to escape. Her course will be unmarked by episode, and like many other Brookner creatures, she will not be pushed by the need for money. Fraud is less a novel than an examination...