The Harley-Davidson company capitalises on this rebel-edge reputation to sell its bikes - average price £8,000 - to professional types with outlaw fantasies.
The Runnin' Rebels edged Cal, 76-75, in December.
An antigovernment activist in Beirut said that the airport in Damascus, the capital, had been closed cut for two days as rebel fighters edged ever closer, while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the airport was shut because of a fierce government counteroffensive.
The government has the greater firepower and controls the towns, while the terrain gives the rebels the edge in the bush.
NATO bombed Gadhafi's military under a U.N. mandate to protect civilians, giving rebel forces an edge on Gadhafi's better armed and trained soldiers.
"People who think they're clever by being like, 'Well, I happen to be politically incorrect!' And now you get to act like you're a cutting-edge rebel because you're reinforcing the oppressive status quo!
"People who think they're clever by being like, 'Well, I happen to be politically _in_correct!' And now you get to act like you're a cutting-edge rebel because you're reinforcing the oppressive status quo!
By the time American cruise missiles reached Libyan targets on Saturday, Colonel Qaddafi's troops, reinforced by mercenaries, had pushed Libyan rebels from the edge of Tripoli in western Libya all the way back to Benghazi in the east, and were on the verge of overtaking that last rebel stronghold.
Residents and activists said the Syrian Army was attacking from a military base on the city's southern edge, while rebel commanders and activists said the rebels controlled eastern sections of the city as they continued to fight for neighborhoods near the center of the city and in Salaheddiin, a large neighborhood in the southwest part of Aleppo.
In Kibumba, a village at the edge of rebel territory about 20 miles north of Goma — the provincial capital the rebels were poised to seize before declaring a unilateral cease-fire late last month — hundreds of children have been turned into desperate street hawkers because their schools were looted last month and no authority has decided what to do about it.
