Word: brazened
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...move as brazen as it was unexpected, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich - accused of trying to swap President Elect Barack Obama's vacant senate seat for a high-paying Administration job or other favors - named former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris as Obama's replacement. As a former State Comptroller, he's the first African American to win an Illinois executive office; he has also lost five races for higher office...
...Blagojevich who continues to be the target of public outrage. Talk-radio hosts in the state fielded calls from citizens who wondered how the governor could attempt anything so brazen amid what were clearly ongoing federal investigations into some of his activities. "It's as if it didn't register [with Blagojevich]," says Jay Stewart, executive director of the Illinois Better Government Association, in Chicago. "Even by our crass, low standards in Illinois, it's stunning." Most polls had the governor's approval rating in the low two digits, from 16% to about 25%, but a recent survey had Blago...
...streets were emptied of life. In one sense, this was lovely, if disturbing: you had unimpeded views of the city's stately colonial buildings, its stone-paved avenues and the glittering sea. But this absence of humanity also revealed how stunned and baffled Mumbai's citizens were by the brazen attacks on their home. They stayed inside because they knew this was more than just another random bomb blast, the kind Indians usually shake off like so many mosquitoes...
...from any hijacking, ranging from pirate commanders to leaders of the embattled U.S.-backed transitional government of Somalia as well as its nemesis, the Islamist Shabab militia. Lowest in the pecking order, it seems, are the gunmen who actually captured the ships. (See pictures of Somalia's brazen pirates...
Still, Talabani's move is a brazen attempt to clip Maliki's wings. The Prime Minister "is not budging and remains adamant that creating these councils is legal," Talabani was quoted by the Associated Press as saying in the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah on Monday. "We will go to the federal court to see whether this is indeed the case...