Word: firebrands
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before an IOP crowd of 100, liberal hotheads Ho and Clarke were joined by conservative firebrand G. Brent McGuire '95, senior council member of Peninsula, and Whitney D. Pidot '96, president of The Harvard Salient and fence-sitter par excellence...
...idea first came up at a Moscow lunch: What if an American correspondent were to accompany Russia's most flamboyant political firebrand on his very first visit to the U.S.? The proposal seemed intriguing, since it came from the Liberal Democratic Party, which normally views Western journalists as foreign agents. My contact stressed that Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the party's leader, had approved the idea...
With Israelis already concerned about Republican threats to slash foreign aid, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin today downplayed fears that GOP firebrand Sen. Jesse Helms -- in 60 days chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee -- might go after the historic U.S.-Israel relationship. The source: Israel's biggest newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, today cited a Helms staff trial balloon proposing that the U.S. forgive Israel's debt in exchange for a huge cut in its $1.2 billion annual economic aid package. Rabin -- on his way to the U.S. for a week -- told reporters that he'll meet with decision-makers...
...quite fitting for the role. While he executes Shakespeare with finesse and a startling accessibility, his chubby-cheeked, doughy countenance is a mismatch for the role. True, he manages to convey the youth of Henry but when the role demands the handsome, strong-jaw-boned fierceness of a young firebrand, he is somewhat limited by the wimpiness of his looks. In spite of these handicaps, however, he admirably manages to convince us of his common humanity--he is one with his men and his dedication to Mother England...
Likewise, the political situation shows even less deviation from the Carribean norm. Throughout the 20th century, the area has been volatile, with regular cup d'etats infrequently interrupted by fair elections. Since 1986, coups and countercoups have rocked Haiti, culminating in the September 1991 ouster of firebrand President Jean-Bertrand Aristide by a military junta...