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...senator. But the new legislator, liberal by the standards of time and place, was a lonely figure. Jay Shropshire, then a legislative aide and now Wilder's chief of staff, recalls, "He was frozen out for the most part, ignored, bypassed." So Wilder became a leader of the "palace revolt," in which remnants of segregationist Harry Byrd's machine were ousted...
WORLD: Following Revolt, a Mess...
...participants interviewed campus leaders from several schools in each city. Bok placed great emphasis on discussions with students who had directly participated in the 1989 democratic revolt, Felzenberg said...
...dictators, particularly for their ability to bring "stability" to those parts of the world deemed * too primitive to tolerate democracy, is Saddam Hussein. For it was Bush who saved Saddam. In the crucial days after the gulf war, when the Shi'ite south and the Kurdish north were in revolt, Saddam was hanging by a thread. The Administration could easily have tipped the balance against him. It chose not to. It stayed its hand -- muted its threats and grounded its aircraft -- in the name of stability and the unity of the Iraqi state...
What could be a better invitation to civil-disobedience revolt than watching lawmakers who earn $125,100 travel around the world for free, have massages in the House gym for free, have their cars parked for free and have their tickets fixed, refusing to pay for the few perks that are not granted outright. "If ordinary people did that, they would be charged out the wazoo," says C.T. Anderson, a bartender at Manuel's Tavern in Atlanta, who has heard plenty from his customers. "People are just...