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...look out on the new (and non-smoking) dining hall defensively. I've become attached to the Smiths-esque high school angst I find (to my surprise) I've reclaimed. After all, I put the house on my form. I'd wanted to rebel against Adams, but Adams was rebellion itself...
...April. Beyond this hurdle is the next general election, which must be held no later than 1993, and which may see Canadian politics fragmented into five parties -- Mulroney's Progressive Conservatives, the opposition Liberals, the socialist New Democratic Party, the Bloc Quebecois and the brand-new Reform Party, a rebellion of westerners whose slogan is "We Want...
Harrison Salisbury, the veteran New York Times correspondent and popular historian, comes right out and calls Mao an emperor -- and not the first one to take power through a peasant rebellion. Precisely because Mao was a peasant, he was unprepared to govern China and modernize it. A "pseudo- Marxist" bored by statistics and budgets, Mao was interested mainly in class warfare and "mobilization of the masses," who he was convinced could do anything if properly exhorted...
...active homosexuality is a repudiation of the goodness and purpose of the creation of man in two kinds: male and female. It is within this context that St. Paul's well-known criticism of homosexual activity as a sign of blindness to the created order and of the universal rebellion against God must be understood...
...flame. Spectators in Albertville have been cheering for the newcomer sports, in part because several French competitors have been medalists or contenders. But elsewhere, TV viewers have been granted only modest exposure and minimal instruction. What they have been most likely to sense is an aura of novelty and rebellion...