Word: rebellions
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...youth were attracted to the freedom and rebellion that punk offered," says Trax magazine's music editor, Farid Amriansyah. "They were looking for an identity and punk gave it to them." Onie's friend Aca found his mood reflected in the stark lyrics of Fight Back, the 1980 protest anthem by English hardcore-punk band Discharge: "People die in police custody/ Where's the justice in that?/ Don't see none/ Fight the system, fight back." These words directly inspired Aca to join street protests in 1998, when he was tear-gassed and bludgeoned with the butts of police rifles...
...this was hardly a full-blown adolescent rebellion: Zornow’s parents were on board from...
Vasella knows, though, that he can't insulate Novartis from the rising public rebellion against drug prices. According to the advocacy group Families USA, prices of such branded drugs as Novartis' Miacalcin and AstraZeneca's Prilosec have grown at twice the rate of inflation, even as government controls have kept the same prescriptions much cheaper in most other countries. Patients in the U.S.--who account for roughly half the drug industry's annual global revenues of $364 billion--are howling, and they are getting heard in Congress. But so is Vasella, who employs 19,000 Americans and recently opened...
...terror." Hundreds of foreign Islamist fighters are heeding calls from Osama bin Laden to go fight in Somalia, according to analysts in the region. And militant leader Aden Hashi Ayro, wounded in the January strikes, has now recovered and is leading a reconstituted and overtly anti-American U.I.C. rebellion in Mogadishu. There is little question that such dire assessments are becoming increasingly accurate...
...remains to be seen whether such rituals, if they are implemented on a national basis, will satisfy the ICC and international opinion. The LRA terrorized and killed thousands, mutilating civilians, abducting children and displacing over a million during its 20-year rebellion in the east African nation. Since July 2006, the Ugandan government and the LRA have been engaged in peace talks that have lapsed as often as they have advanced. The LRA's top leaders - Joseph Kony and Vincent Otti - have been hiding in the bush in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, while their scattered fighters have taken...