Word: firebrands
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Saturday morning, with the votes being counted by order of the state supreme court, Bush's directive about softening the rhetoric had been rendered inoperative. Tom DeLay, the resident House G.O.P. firebrand, had vowed the night before that "this judicial aggression will not stand." His operatives were in Florida, officially to observe the recount process, and House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt warned them not to "disrupt this count." But there were plenty of other disruptions...
...ballot "undervote" pile to near-completion. So far, 205 net votes for Gore - reportedly, the standard is on the loose side. In an episode much re-played on the cable news channels, a Broward counter got in a shouting match with a GOP lawyer, and Montana firebrand Gov. Mark Racicot tried to break...
...know it, everyone and their brother knows it, even if we can't necessarily agree on which way. Certain major chunks of the national media are a bit conservative-challenged; certainly too a major chunk of the well-paid, 401K-holding media elite aren't exactly friendly to firebrand radicalism...
...what made Kostunica the perfect candidate now was what he was not. He was a humble, bookish scholar, not a brash firebrand pol. He was a vigorous nationalist, not an ethnic killer. He subscribed to multiparty democracy and market economics but never kowtowed to the West. He wanted to end confrontation with Europe and the U.S. but harshly condemned NATO's air war and slammed Washington's aggressive support for the Serbian opposition this past year as "the kiss of death." He vowed not to deliver Milosevic to the Hague, calling the war-crimes tribunal an illegitimate instrument...
...than anxiety in the chairman of the Prague meetings of the IMF and World Bank. Trevor Manuel may be South Africa's internationally respected finance minister, but a little over a decade ago he was still on the wrong end of the tear gas and water cannon as a firebrand anti-apartheid leader. The conference's host, Czech president Vaclav Havel may be feeling a little nostalgic, too - after all, back in '68 he was just another Absurdist playwright trying to overthrow the system...