Word: contrarians
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...four days after my thesis was due), and I could complain about how my request for an extension was declined (firmly), but I won’t. I can accept the blame for my lack of preparation: it’s water under the bridge, and frankly, the true contrarian in me is glad that I didn’t waste my brain space re-learning the intricacies of hormone pathways...
...first mention of a Gospel of Judas was a critical pan. In A.D. 180 the church father Irenaeus ascribed a work of that title to a group of contrarian believers who were called Cainites because they admired the first murderer, whom they saw as cursed by a cruel God. The 4th century bishop Epiphanius also attacked the text--after which it disappeared from record. "Because it was naughty," says James Robinson, an early-Christianity expert writing a book called The Secrets of Judas, "the orthodox church suppressed it, and it was buried somewhere...
Many Germans welcome the change. The 1960s and '70s were a particularly intense time in Germany as young people threw off the social straitjacket of the 1950s and the legacy of Nazism. Fischer, who among other assorted jobs worked as a taxi driver, brought some of that contrarian spirit into German political life, famously clashing with U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on the eve of the Iraq war. Schröder was not a radical but shared his cohort's progressive outlook and freewheeling lifestyle. (Schröder and Fischer have eight marriages between them.) "They all wore suits and ties...
Although several UC members had expressed interest in the post only a few days earlier, only Capp and UC veteran and contrarian Jason L. Lurie ’05 accepted nominations...
Several UC members—including Lurie—said that the unexpectedly high number of votes for council contrarian and outgoing senior Lurie reflected disenchantment with the circumstances surrounding the election process and the resignation of former UC Vice President Ian W. Nichols...