Word: rebellions
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...where the rituals of daily life give way, on occasion, to the risky and serendipitous. Late night comes after the cheery sitcoms and earnest magazine shows have gone to bed. It is where Americans have the freedom to rabble-rouse, ruminate or maybe just relax -- their small- scale midnight rebellion...
...Only Allah can bring the rain and only Allah can stop it. In dealing with Pharaoh, Allah sent signs ... in direct connection with his rebellion and his transgression ... It's just as evident and clear today." -- Imam Jamil al- Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown), who suggests that the floods are punishment for the killing of innocent Muslims during the Persian Gulf...
...protection, a youngster's seemingly prudent response to the small-arms race among his peers. But often, guns and gunfights are just a defense against the inexplicable despair that torments so many American teenagers. While the basic destructive impulses of rebellious young men remain unchanged, the methods of rebellion are now far more dangerous. Today's miscreants know that a pistol says much more than long hair or a pierced nose ever could. Not just louder, but forever. With a $25 investment, all the teasing from classmates stops cold. Suddenly, the shortest, ugliest and weakest kid becomes a player...
...best of all possible worlds, the space program would not be getting crushed between the defense budget, galumphing entitlements and a right-wing rebellion against government spending for anything but keeping undesirables out of the neighborhood. But this is not the best of worlds. This shrunken little station is not the glorious conquest of space once rhapsodized about in these and other pages. If it goes up we will have to listen to years of astronaut hyperbole about the joys of drawing blood from each other in orbit. The space station has stunk up the joint long enough...
...table, and talks continued through Wednesday. But the negotiations broke down four or five more times during the next 36 hours, and it wasn't until 1 a.m. Thursday that Gephardt and Stenholm found a solution. White House officials later praised Stenholm, noting that he kept the rebellion "in the family and did not go looking for votes in the G.O.P...