Word: firebrands
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...outside world will not take Hamas for anything but an implacable terrorist outfit bent on the elimination of Israel. And publicly, its leaders stick to the group's hard-core aims. With the elevation of Rantisi, the last word among Hamas' decision makers belongs to the most uncompromising firebrand in the leadership...
...safe enough to disarm. Gun-toting Shi'ite militiamen clad in black flooded the bomb-scarred neighborhoods of Karbala and Baghdad, setting up checkpoints and clearing the streets. Thousands of Shi'ites are under arms, divided into two major groups. One, the Jaish al-Mahdi, is aligned with the firebrand radical Muqtada al-Sadr and posts its secretive fighters at his Baghdad strongholds. "Every day people are coming in to volunteer," Sheik Rada al-Zubeidy, who runs one of al-Sadr's branch offices, told TIME last week. An even larger militia called the Badr Organization reports to the Supreme...
...including the Prime Minister—naming their favorite teachers, and climaxed (rather nauseatingly) with the catchphrase, “Those who can, teach.” Had they asked me—I was, shockingly, snubbed—I would have chosen Jane Sillery, the Northern Irish firebrand who taught me history during my last two years before college...
...caucuses plan - even the IGC has now reneged on its support for the procedure - has left it dead in the water. Discussion is currently under way over an alternative, possibly expanding the IGC to include political actors with significant support that are currently outside of it, such as the firebrand cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. The IGC is reportedly also considering the option of a new provisional government being appointed by a national gathering of stakeholders, convened not under the auspices of the U.S. or the IGC, but rather by the UN or the Arab League. Washington's tutelage of Iraq...
...humor, a Catholic upbringing, femininity (he wouldn’t specify, but mentioned being a homemaker), and openness to children. “Gladden is a somewhat reserved person,” says Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, “not a firebrand. But he has inner resources...