Word: contrarian
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...decision by Ian W. Nichols ’06 to resign on Sunday as Undergraduate Council (UC) Vice President was the best possible outcome for both the UC and the student body at large. As expected, Nichols turned out to be a contrarian Vice President, with a vision for the Council that did not line up with what the rest of the UC Executive Board had in mind. If the UC’s top leadership expected Nichols to be the same sort of Vice President as former VP Michael R. Blickstead ’05—a former...
...PRINCIPLED CONTRARIAN...
...Instead of turning a single subject on its head, Mr. Summers has cut a swath through half-a-dozen disciplines with clever, mostly contrarian contributions,” the Times reported, unwittingly diagnosing Summers with a condition that would eventually lead to his biggest mistakes as a public figure...
...work recently published or on the way, even Lévy may finally be feeling overexposed. The most unflattering light was cast last week with the publication of investigative journalist Philippe Cohen's BHL: A Biography. It argues that Lévy's career was built upon contrarian posing, relentless grandstanding, lying, and connivance with politicians and the media, and - much worse - that it is devoid of any real intellectual contribution. "His irrepressible desire to express himself about everything and nothing renders his point of view incoherent," writes Cohen, who co-authored a 2003 book bashing another French institution...
Tusk and Heller later became members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association (HRSFA), a social group united by a love of science fiction, gaming and contrarian pranks. Since her freshman year, Heller, now chair of HRSFA, has learned how little attachment the cloak...