Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shining is the No. 1 song in U.S. clubs. Next month an all-star tribute to Marley will be held in Oracabessa Bay, Jamaica, featuring performers ranging from Sarah McLachlan to Busta Rhymes (it will air on TNT Dec. 19). And next month Bob Marley: Soul Rebel (Thunder's Mouth; 144 pages; $22.95), by former Billboard reporter Maureen Sheridan, will be released, detailing the stories behind Marley's songs. Earlier this year a Marley-themed restaurant/ club opened at Universal Studios CityWalk in Orlando, Fla. The menu features Caribbean cuisine, and the decor is based on Marley's home...
...died of cancer in 1981 at age 36, brought the Third World to the whole world. The dirt streets of the Jamaican slum of Trench Town, the myths and tales of the Caribbean, the wisdom and fire of the Old Testament--he drew from it all, creating reggae music, rebel psalms, that rang with poetry and prophecy. Romance, for him, was not incompatible with revolution; bullets and ballads were both the stuff of his work. He envisioned a world beyond this one but never lost sight of the horrors and joys of the here and now. "If you know what...
...surgery, many doctors must submit their therapies and plans to company reviewers. Examples of denied care have produced the worst horror stories associated with managed care. The process has left doctors frustrated and patients anxious. It also fueled a revolt in Congress last month in which a band of rebel Republicans rolled over the House leadership to pass a bill giving patients the right to sue their insurance companies for the medical decisions they make...
...single digits apart. And as it happened, at just the moment that the contest came into focus, the issues of intellect and temperament that have hummed all year suddenly threw off sparks and lit up the whole horizon of the Republican race. One Navy prince, one political prince, both rebel cutups with frat-house charm, they took very different roads to the stage they currently share. If Bush is defined by his friends and alliances, McCain is known by the enemies he has dared to make and the grievances he has dared to have. Whereas Bush spent his early years...
...President Clinton had hoped that a new face in the Kremlin might help quell the United States' disquiet over the Chechnyan situation, he was to be disappointed. The President met with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Oslo on Tuesday, urging the former KGB colonel to go easy on the rebel republic - and was met with a resounding "nyet." Putin simply emphasized that Chechnya was an internal fight against terrorism, and shouldn't impinge on U.S.-Russian relations. Despite appearances, however, Putin, may not be the man in charge of the Chechnya campaign. "The generals have reemerged as a serious force...