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TREND-O-RAMA: REVOLT AGAINST SNOTTY GIRLS...
During this time of revolt, serving as president of a university that stood for authority and tradition was a daunting task. When informed that he was a possible candidate, Carl Keyson, head of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, said, "I'm crazy, but I'm not that crazy...
...ruling class wants you to vote because voting tricks you into believing you have an equal stake in the power structure. You are less likely to revolt if you feel included in determining who gets to look down Arianna Huffington's blouse at Washington parties...
...Serbian people who had given him their votes two weeks earlier. Kostunica's ability to unite the fractious Serbian opposition and defeat Slobodan Milosevic at the polls was an astonishing political feat, but even his allies wondered whether the taciturn scholar had it in him to lead a popular revolt. He did. Kostunica didn't want events to be settled in Belgrade's streets, but once the revolution started, his simultaneous exhortations for freedom and peace helped ensure that it remained bloodless. True to form, Kostunica displayed little emotion during the tumult. And as the uprising abated, he assumed...
...almost exactly noon, a volley of tear gas touched off the final revolt. Police guarding the parliament thought they could face down the furious, swelling mob. The peppery gas started to bite, pushing back the crowd as many dragged out handkerchiefs ready in their pockets. But the police were unwilling to match the ferocity of the crowd as its show of strength escalated into a full-scale assault on the principal symbols of Milosevic's power...