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...Najaf, base of the 1991 Shia rebellion, a woman laughs as I struggle with my slippery hijab, then helps tie the scarf that covers my hair. Is she scared of war, I ask, miming planes and bombs. She shrugged and pointed to the sky. God will decide. Then she turns to pray at the beautiful, golden shrine. She looks extremely devout, and perhaps her God is listening. She is praying for peace...
...buzzed with rumors that ex-President Fidel Ramos might join the fray, although his candidacy could be blocked by a clause in the Philippine constitution preventing any President from being re-elected. (Ramos boosters say the constitution only bars Presidents from serving two consecutive terms.) The People Power II rebellion achieved its goal of getting one President out of the ornate Malacañang Palace and installing another. By announcing her plans to leave office, Arroyo may be signaling that the revolution is over-and now it's back to politics as usual...
Just ask anybody in Boston. Law's resignation came amid a rebellion that started among parishioners but ended up including a growing number of priests. They were outraged that he had sheltered serial predators like John Geoghan, who has been implicated in 130 cases and was sentenced to nine to 10 years in prison for improperly touching a 10-year-old boy, and Paul Shanley, who publicly advocated the idea of sex between men and boys. It did not help Law's standing last week when Shanley, who is awaiting trial, was released on bail...
Nobody’s fooled by our feeble examples of flexibility and free-spiritedness, of course, and those who have known us the longest can see the crimson in our camouflage right away. Regardless of the belated rebellion we claim, even if we have the new piercings, sexual wisdom or addictive habits to prove it, they see the same determination to succeed they remember from the pre-smackdown glory days, back in the little pond...
...soldiers in late November killed more than 120 civilians whom they suspected of colluding with rebels. Reports from the village of Monoko-Zohi indicated that body parts could be seen protruding from a 28-m-long shallow grave. If verified, it would be the worst civilian massacre since a rebellion split the nation into military- and rebel-held zones three months ago. MEANWHILE Jailhouse Mock For Russians, the very mention of the Perm-36 workcamp sets off an involuntary shiver. The notorious Soviet gulag in the Urals housed political prisoners like Jewish dissident Nathan Sharansky. The camp has now reopened...