Word: revolt
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...Disney had been floating the idea of splitting the top jobs to quell shareholder grumbling even before the votes were in. Sources tell TIME that Disney made an overture to an influential shareholder advisory group to gauge its support for the idea even before the full magnitude of the revolt was known. Twelve days before the vote count was announced, a lawyer for Disney called Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), the proxy advisory group, to see if ISS would change its no-confidence recommendation if the board split the jobs. The conversation ended in seconds. "We didn't even entertain...
...musical plan is foiled, the kids run amok and a Rube Goldberg-style A bomb blows the whole place up. (By now Bart Collins has outdone Bart Simpson on the destructo scale.) Not since Jean Vigo's "Zero de Conduite" have filmmakers so fervently called for a revolt of the underage. Even the laconic Zabladowski falls under Bart's revolutionary spell. "People should always believe in kids," he says sagely. "They should even believe their lies...
...least 20 states have joined the revolt. Utah's house of representatives last week passed a bill that forbids the state to spend any of its money to meet the law's requirements. No Child Left Behind has declared more than 6,000 schools failing and, the states say, imposed on them millions in costs to create new tests and accountability systems. Critics are upset about those costs and the difficulty of getting exemptions to the policy, even though many schools argue that they are failing only because a few students with special needs aren't making...
Bush's tax cuts have been such nectar to conservatives that there's little danger of a broad fiscal revolt from his base. Furthermore, embracing the prescription-drug entitlement helps build the kind of governing majority that Bush's political brain Karl Rove has long dreamed of. When they were a minority party, Republicans could preach fiscal discipline. Now that they control Congress, the White House and more than half of the state houses, they have to show that they are listening--specifically on issues like health care and education, which were once considered territory only Democrats cared about...
...1840s, preaching a gospel of class justice and the liberation of women. In The Way to Paradise (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 373 pages) Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist, onetime presidential hopeful and perennial Nobel candidate, lightly fictionalizes their stories in alternating chapters, portraits of two literally kindred souls in revolt against the horsewhips and hypocrisy of the bourgeois order. Both of them rejected the world as they found it--repressed, greedy, deaf to the higher (or lower) impulses. Each of them died with hands still stretched toward the horizon...