Word: refusenik
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...Several refusenik soldiers rang Rabbi Re'em Hacohen, a former teacher of theirs at a yeshiva, or religious seminary, in the West Bank. "They were all loyal and responsible citizens, wracked by the decision whether to obey their superiors," says the rabbi, who urged them to act "with a clear conscience." The rabbi, himself a former soldier, lays blame on the army brass, not the refuseniks: "The army should be used to fight our enemies, not against our own society...
...visiting Normandy for the 60th anniversary of D-day, he dropped in on his ally Silvio Berlusconi in Rome - and the demonstrations were no less virulent. But this week, Bush is meeting the stroppiest of America's allies head on. In Brussels - the heart of the European Union and refusenik central for Washington's aggressive plan to rein in terrorists and bring democracy to the Middle East - he meets all 25 leaders of the E.U. member states, and dines with the refusenik in chief, French President Jacques Chirac. He promenades along the Rhine with German Chancellor Gerhard Schr...
...wants to limit teen work hours 9. "Got two fives for __?" 10. Barr's Cabinet successor 11. Guitar bar 16. Robert Conrad wants him investigated 20. Meat-loaf serving 21. __ Nagila 22. River to the Baltic 24. Taper off 25. Treasure Island monogram 26. Explorer Hernando de __ 28. Refusenik's refusal 30. Form 1040 deduction 31. 401(k) cousins 32. First name in scat 35. Command for D.D.E. 38. It'll curl your hair 40. Andrew, leader of one of the Solomon Islands' warring factions 42. Photo from an original Polaroid 44. Cod kin 45. It may get smashed...
...author spends time at Big Mountain, Hopi territory still settled by refusenik Navajos, "way out in the Arizona desert, off the modern grid." A traveler who has returned from the back of beyond may be tempted to claim more acceptance by the locals than was really the case, but Shoumatoff plays it straight. He made some headway and won some trust, but he reports that the wall Navajos have erected against white wannabes and sight-seeing Anglo journalists is very real...
Figgis is a refusenik in every way. Even the neon glitz of his milieu, visual catnip to most directors, is muted. His Las Vegas is mostly low-wattage motel rooms and morning-after grayness. Cage, that most daring of actors, practically cha-chas through the gloom, high on the freedom that the loss of all amour propre bestows. Shue's character hasn't yet reached that heady state. She's engaged in a complex struggle between self-awareness and self-destruction. One has only the smallest hope for her. And none at all for the commercial fate of a movie...