Word: maverickly
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...image, Berlusconi desperately wants to be taken seriously. He reportedly told associates after his victory on April 14 that he will use the next five years to establish his legacy as a "statesman." But a longing for legitimation may hamper him more than it tempers him. Berlusconi, once a maverick outsider, looks increasingly like a typical deal-making Italian politico; more a parody than a model of statesmanship. If he wants to make a lasting impact, Berlusconi would do well to harness his flamboyant, image-driven instincts for the benefit of the country. He has proposed leading weekly government meetings...
...candidate who relies on his carefully cultivated image as a straight-talking, maverick, John McCain has few issues as symbolically important as torture. No Republican has been as outspoken an opponent of prisoner mistreatment and abuse as McCain, and his own painful experience as a prisoner during the Vietnam War has granted him a unique moral authority on the issue...
...hours in the sim,” he said, referring to a machine that simulates outer space. He showed a PowerPoint slide of a three-foot stack of required manuals for skills like robotics. After pointing out that the pilot on one of his shuttle missions was the real Maverick from the film “Top Gun,” Burbank said that actual shuttle flying is not daunting to a trained pilot. “It’s a lot easier to fly in space than it is to learn to speak Russian well...
...next week for the testimony of Gen. David Petraeus, who is commanding the military effort in Iraq. That will be followed by a continued tour of parts of the country not often visited by Republican candidates, like New Orleans and Appalachia, as a way of displaying McCain's maverick character and hope for expanding his party's base of voters...
...gime, Fox News will have one important asset: its loyal viewer base. But even for them, it will need to shake up its comfortable Bush-era routine, perhaps by cultivating new hosts, perhaps by taking a page from McCain and branding itself as the channel of maverick authenticity, not of establishment dogma. The viewers are Fox's to keep. It just has to figure out what's going to make them mad starting...