Word: revoltings
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...designed garage, made me wonder [PEOPLE, March 18]: What if Seinfeld were a 19th century prince in a tiny kingdom where most people lived in mean little hovels and were being pushed off the land by rich landowners who wanted more stables for their horses? Would the peasants eventually revolt and take over the stables? What a pity there's no precedent for revolutions aimed at media stars, America's version of the ruthless, greedy ruling classes. PATTI LOWERY Baltimore...
Monro had written for The Crimson as an undergraduate and in his senior year led a revolt against the paper and founded the socially minded Harvard Journal...
...cracks. Even today, for instance, the INS and FBI fingerprint systems can't cross-reference. The same bill has been proposed in the Senate, but it is snarled in a procedural squabble that could delay a vote for another month. INS Commissioner James W. Ziglar tried to quell the revolt in part by joining it. Calling the visa fiasco "unacceptable," he announced a major shake-up, reassigning four senior officials. He too favors separating the agency's enforcement unit from its immigration side. But that might not be enough to placate Sensenbrenner, who wants Ziglar's scalp...
...Israelis and Palestinians were peacefully getting on with their lives until Bill Clinton got them all fired up with ideas about sharing Jerusalem. Before Oslo, Palestinians had spent five-years in a state of violent rebellion against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Oslo ended that revolt only because it offered Palestinians a peaceful means of getting rid of the occupation and achieving statehood in exchange for guaranteeing Israel's security...
...Unions, a close political partner of the ruling African National Congress, allied itself with Achmat's drug purchase in Brazil. Many state doctors and health officials, especially in the rural areas, are quietly accepting offers of funding from the private sector and overseas to obtain antiretrovirals. "It's a revolt that's gone underground," said a KwaZulu health worker. But in some provinces officials have been suspended and doctors have lost government contracts for giving nevirapine without authorization...