Word: chutzpah
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What gives these whining students the chutzpah to claim the University as their own? They have been admitted here--God knows why--by the Admissions Committee, just like everyone else (I'm assuming). They think of themselves as grass-roots conservatives with a monopoly on truth, justice and the American way. In fact, they are the fringe: the freakish fascists who parade as Americans under the Stars and Stripes while eschewing all the freedoms for which this country exists. They are the intolerant. They are the fundamentalists. They are the malcontent minority who, guised in hypocritical morality, attack the virtuous...
...blame the Israelis for being skeptical of this sort of "peace" when their supposed partners in peace are given to changing their job descriptions from that of civilian police force members to vigilante commandos on a mere whim? Only the international community could have the chutzpah to expect Israel to tolerate the creation of a militia out of the group of security guards that Israel itself empowered...
...rehearses night and day to produce an all-house musical production that's sold out every night and gets great reviews. Everybody in it--the tech crew, the cast, the orchestra--comes from our house. People you never thought would go near a stage belt out numbers with chutzpah to the cheers and laughter of their friends in the audience...
Self-conscious? Stupak? Even in Vegas, city of naked, naive ambition, where the gods Whim and Ego bestride the Strip and hubris is just Greek for chutzpah, Stupak is a figure of such bejeweled swagger that confessing a nightmare of disaster-movie proportions can seem like a boast. The dream speaks to the compulsive gambler's fear of winning what he most desires, while planning even gaudier schemes. "Tell your editors that I'll donate $1 million to their favorite charity," he barks at a Time reporter, "if they put my picture on the corner of the cover. Two million...
SARAJEVO: Although it takes considerable chutzpah to keep NATO, Muslim, and Croat generals waiting in the rain, Bosnian Serb General Zdravko Tolimir did just that on Monday. When Tolimir did not show up for the meeting which was to mark the resumption of Serb contacts with NATO, the other parties flew out to the U.S. aircraft carrier USS George Washington to carry on sans Serbs. NATO commander Admiral Leighton Smith called Tolimir's absence "not very smart," saying the General's political superiors wanted him to be there. Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic had agreed in weekend meetings with U.S. envoy...