Word: rebellions
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...worst moment came a week after the victory. The war was won, everybody filed their stories. Then the Shiite rebellion began, egged on by President Bush's call on them to rise and overthrow Saddam. I'd gone up the Euphrates, and crossed a river into Shiite territory. The Iraqi Republican Guard was killing thousands and thousands of Shiites. It was incredible, just slaughter. I came out and tried to do a story about it, and no one would listen. The war was over but now there were more casualties happening than in the war itself, and nobody cared...
...Rebellion or invasion - what's in a name...
...Mobutu and install a government that would stop the cross-border insurgencies that menaced all three. Thus was born the presidency of Laurent Kabila, for it was to the rotund Maoist warlord that the Angolans, Rwandans and Ugandans looked when forced to quickly find an indigenous face on a "rebellion" that had been something closer to an invasion...
...what the utilities had requested, will probably cost the state's businesses as much as $400 million, pushing up prices across the country for fruit, vegetables and cheese. And many angry consumer advocates, who think they haven't seen the end of the increases, promise nothing less than a rebellion. Charges David Morse, a manager at the state Office of Ratepayer Advocates: "It's like saying there's a blank check to cover the generators' demands...
Fiddler on the Roof is the perfect picture to see for a family with only teenage daughters. Tevye, who has no sons, sarcastically calls his five girls "five blessings." The film tracks the accelerating rebellion of the three eldest, all of whom choose to marry for love, thwarting the efforts of the cranky old matchmaker. It is my dream that someone will someday make a sequel. At the end of Fiddler, Tevye and his wife are about to take their two youngest girls to New York City. If the first three were such headaches in the Russian village...