Word: rebellions
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...that people were accessing the electoral commission's computer system from Internet cafes and tampering with results. Toledo, a Harvard-trained economist who had jumped in a matter of weeks from about 5 percent support to win more than 40 percent of the vote, had called for a "peaceful rebellion" in the event that Fujimori would claim a first-round victory. Now, however, he'll have to steel himself for a bruising title bout with an incumbent who campaigns with his gloves...
...drawn into a counterinsurgency war," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "They don't think it's possible to say you're going to go down there and help the Colombian military shoot drug traffickers without shooting at the FARC, and that makes them very nervous. It's a rebellion that's been going on for some 40 years, and it's plainly not going to come to an end soon - the Pentagon fears it's a whirlpool that's going to suck them...
...Aristotle says, democracy is the rule of the poor, we might just as well say it's the rule of underdogs. Perhaps democracy is a sustained rebellion against those who, by virtue of their virtue, have a just claim to rule. Zeal for the underdog, then, is a leveling, equalizing, smashing impulse--in short, rebelliousness...
...film, The Next Best Thing. In the article, the woman who only eight years ago published the pseudo-scandalous book Sex discusses the mellowing effects of motherhood: "I've been naked in every state and country... I've dated the NBA...I dealt with my sexual rebellion. I worked it out of my system." Which no doubt makes her a more appreciative audience for the magazine's Buyer's Guide to state-of-the-art electric ranges...
Part of McCain's appeal to college students, then, has to do with his gentle contempt for their parents: his rhetoric is, in part, meant to cause something of a Thermidorian Reaction against the ever-indulgent boomers. Rebelling against rebellion is a difficult trick, but with a clever slight of hand a skilled leader can rouse the rabble under the flag of prudence...