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...first undergraduate uprising was the famous "butter riot" of 1766. Bad food had been a student complaint since the University's founding, and the rebellion started when Asa Dunbar, grandfather of Henry Thoreau, confronted an administrator and complained. "Behold, our butter stinketh and we cannot eat thereof...
...result of this great rebellion the Overseers and Corporation agreed on a code of 153 regulations in 13 section, dictating everything from vacations to the requirement that the president submit an annual report to the Overseers...
...very sad meeting," said Mapam Leader Victor Shentov, after Peres told him of the plan to share the prime ministership. "We have a historical mission to be a party that presents its views clearly to fight the growing extremism in this country." Shamir feels that Mapam's potential rebellion strengthens his case to be first in the Prime Minister rotation. If Mapam deserts Peres, Labor would be in an especially weak position, with only 38 seats in the Knesset, three fewer than Likud. "Why should we then give Peres the preference?" asked a Shamir aide...
...permission; no one is born or dies without his notice. Rumkowski orders postage stamps bearing his likeness; sycophants and fools dance in constant attendance. He seems fond of his charges, but he fully cooperates with the Nazis, supervises "deportations" that go directly to the ovens of Chelmno, and discourages rebellion of any kind because "nothing bad will happen to people of good will...
...hundreds who perished in the messianic rebellion which swept Northeastern Brazil in the last years of the 19th century have twice achieved some measure of immortality. First they were the subject of Luclides da Cunha's classic Os Sertaos. And now Mario Vargas-Llosa, one of Latin America's most original novelists, has turned his attention to this ill-fated band...