Word: revoltingly
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...bound to spill over." In this freedom fight, as in a similar one some two decades ago, music is applying pressure. "To us, music is life," says Black Spirits bassist Never Mpofu. Songs like Mapfumo's anthemic Huni ("Do not play with the people, because the people can revolt") and Mtukudzi's thoughtful Kucheneka ("Emulate those who are brave, those who went before you") remind the powerful and the powerless of the possibility of change. "The music is so important to the people," says Mapfumo. "Let's just keep our fingers crossed that it will work." Some people may wonder...
America’s foreign policymakers would never fail to take into account the concerns of other nations—yet this is the perception that is held by many politicians in Europe and the Middle East. The revolt of the French in all matters pertaining to Iraq can only be understood as a protest against the intransigence of U.S. foreign policy and its insensitivity to the views and concerns of other governments. This act of protest and similar ones in the U.N. are primarily the result of the mixed signals given by the members of President George W. Bush?...
...Dominican dissidents assassinate dictator Rafael Trujillo. The CIA has encouraged their revolt and supplied weapons...
...centuries later, the island palace was called upon for sanctuary again. During an Indian revolt against the British in 1857, dozens of European women and children took refuge under its graceful domes. Today the Jagmandir remains a retreat, if from nothing more threatening than the bustle of a sweltering Udaipur afternoon. A motorboat from the City Palace jetty ($3 a person for the round trip) will take you to the island's small pier, which is guarded by eight life-size marble elephants. The newly opened Darikhana Restaurant serves alfresco Indian and continental feasts for about $8 per head...
...Mitznah may face an internal revolt that could see Labor once again accepting the junior role in Sharon's government, but if not, he may have to look towards a narrower coalition of hard-line nationalist and religious parties. The wildcard in the current election, however, is the centrist Shinui party of Tommy Lapid, which has surged from the political margins on a platform of militant secularism. Lapid's peace policies are somewhat vague, but his challenge to the privileges of the ultra-Orthodox who are exempt from military service and study at state expense has proved so popular that...