Word: mavericking
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...growing sport, he and the other sharpshooting globetrotters have managed to captivate hard-to-please hoops fans in the U.S. "Nowitzki's just a freak. He's too big for the small forwards to guard and too quick for the centers," says Aaron Offeyer, 23, a Dallas native and Maverick fan who was sporting his hero's jersey at a road game against the New York Knicks...
...second place, four seats behind the Christian Democrats, who led the outgoing Dutch administration that was brought down after just 88 days in office by infighting within List Pim Fortuyn (lpf), one of the three coalition parties. lpf, of course, was catapulted to power by its charismatic leader, the maverick right-winger Pim Fortuyn, who was assassinated just days before the 2002 election. After Pim, the party fell asunder - and now Bos is emerging as his true heir. Dutch political analyst Kay van de Linde, who was Fortuyn's campaign manager and spent 18 years working with U.S. campaign guru...
...There are no ethics in journalism,” Matthews claimed, a comment which made the local newspaper and caused some consternation among the students who thought journalists had an obligation to be members of their communities as well as reporters on it. But Matthews is no maverick among journalists. In 1987, Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes claimed he would not warn American troops in a war zone if he knew they were walking into a trap. “They would regard it simply as a story they were there to cover,” he said...
...youths of North African descent after two nights of rioting in the country's second city. The violence began after schoolteacher Mohammed Achrak was shot dead, allegedly by his 66-year old neighbor, whom authorities charged with the murder. Prosecutors said he was mentally unstable. AUSTRIA Party Pooper Maverick far-right politician Joerg Haider said that he would remain in politics despite the disastrous performance of his Freedom Party in the country's general elections. Haider threatened to resign as governor of the region of Carinthia - he has often threatened to leave politics - after his party's share...
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