Word: revoltion
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Assad is facing an excruciating dilemma. Calming the furor over the regime's suspected involvement in Hariri's death may ultimately require him to turn over his brother and brother-in-law for questioning, a move that could trigger a revolt by their loyalists. For that reason, many Syrians believe that Assad is unlikely to provide investigators with the level of cooperation they demand. But further evidence of Syrian obstruction could give the West the pretext it needs for sanctions that could cripple the regime. It's no surprise that Assad has kept a low profile since the release...
...lost, she signed instead: "Yushchenko is our President. Do not believe the Central Electoral Commission. They are lying." Says Dmitruk: "I expected there would be hell to pay, but the disgust I felt about all that lying forced out the fear." Dmitruk's personal rebellion triggered a wider revolt. First, other UT-1 journalists refused to broadcast the official line, and then almost every other channel in the country joined in. Within a day, all of Ukraine knew that Yushchenko was the country's true President. In January, Yushchenko personally called UT-1 to ask that Dmitruk translate...
Road-tripping across the country may be the last American cliché that is also simultaneously a revolt. To do it requires the ability not to do anything else, a special challenge in the summer before one’s senior year, when so many Harvard students exit internships with job offers in hand. Friends and classmates struggled to grasp the concept; “going on a trip” didn’t seem like much of a plan. “For what?” people would ask. “What are you doing...
...contrast to the frightening (alleged) slave revolt, New York’s nascent opposition party seemed comparatively innocuous. But the threat of a black uprising also meant that the city’s whites – even with the emergence of two-party politics – remained united. “New York is not America,” Lepore writes, “but what happened in that eighteenth-century slave city tells one story, and a profoundly troubling one, of how slavery destabilized—and created—American politics...
After the Cordoba revolt fizzled, Barreiro simply vanished. Argentines were relieved that their young democracy had withstood that test. But other officers who face charges dating back to the 1970s could follow Barreiro's example. Warned one rebellious officer: "What has happened with Major Barreiro's refusal to appear is the tip of the iceberg...