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...standards of behavior which Alliance High requires would lead to armed rebellion in the average U.S. school. "We had to run to class," Thairu said. "Jog, trot. Faster than just walking. Our society expects it." For Americans, high school corporal punishment is just a Hollywood cliche of injustice, evil and sadism, as Maasdorp points out. "The only time most Americans encounter corporal punishment is in books and movies, and in most of these cases examples of corporal punishment being used unfairly are given," he said in an e-mail. "So I feel that people see it as an unfair abusive...
...Navy as the son and grandson of four-star admirals. Bush, whose family is distantly connected to the Queen of England, entered national politics the son of a President and grandson of a Senator. Both men were raised by absent fathers and strong mothers and delight in recounting their rebellion against the impossible standards they faced, even as they walked in their fathers' footsteps like children leaping from one large bootprint to the next in deep snow...
...asserts. Modernism, it tells me back on ol' 876, is "the use of nontraditional innovative forms of expression." All the way over on 1434, I find that traditionalism is--drum roll, please--"adherence to tradition." If I connect the dots correctly, that means postmodernism is literature that reacts against rebellion to tradition. This would be what exactly? The Pope's latest book? Pamphlets from the Daughters of the American Revolution? Alan Keyes campaign posters...
...people and the positions of other power centers," says Dowell. "Last summer's riotous protests against repression of dissent by the conservatives served as a sharp reminder that there's a delicate balance of power in Iran, and that Iranians when pushed too far are capable of rebellion, as they showed...
...basic argument goes like this: McCain's campaign-finance rebellion--and the force of the Republican reaction against him--was a seismic shock that knocked him free from G.O.P. orthodoxy. And so he attacks Republican pork-barrel projects, questions the need for increased military spending, worries about the gap between rich and poor, and supports new health-care entitlements (insurance for children, a prescription-drug benefit) and even, in the vaguest of terms, universal health care. McCain has also been butting heads with Bush on the question of tax cuts--arguing that the truly conservative position is to keep...