Word: defiant
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...Internet, and the middle-age crafts crowd has begun to demonstrate the same deeply held sense of entitlement felt by 17-year-old Limp Bizkit fans downloading free MP3 tunes. When Hedgepath challenged the piracy of one outfit, brazenly named PatternPiggies, the online postings in response were downright defiant. Shouted one user: "Ladies, this is war, and I'm out for blood...
...past, Milosevic's opponents have usually defeated only themselves. An assortment of dissident parties won municipal elections in the winter of 1996-97 and mounted three months of daily street demonstrations to try to make their defiant ruler concede defeat. But the drive to topple the tyrant lost all steam when egocentric opposition leaders turned on one another, then squandered public trust by cutting personal deals with the regime. Kostunica will need to display uncommon skill and perseverance just to keep his argumentative alliance intact...
...putting together more than 40 boys with this many needs for 10 months at a time, supervised by 12 low-paid faculty, can be risky. Last year, after the school's director fired three popular African-American dorm counselors, the boys became increasingly defiant. At one point they surrounded and threatened a teacher. Seventeen of the 44 boys were sent home...
Though the class's scope--a spry mix of classics, convicts, and the famously defiant--may discourage the sluggish, the burden falls square with most Moral Reasoning cores: two five- to-seven page papers, short response papers graded with checks and midterm and final exams...
...when he met with advisers to talk about a presidential run. As she has done repeatedly, Karenna came to define her father in her own way, a way at odds with his establishmentarian image. The teen decided that Gore and his insurgent bid were of a piece with the defiant punk bands she sneaked out to see. "I felt like we were trying to overthrow the Old Guard," she says...