Word: maverickly
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...safe bet that a new book by John McWhorter, an associate professor of linguistics at Berkeley, will make him a hero to the black-bashing crowd. Black, smart and only 34, McWhorter is being touted by his publisher as a maverick "more angry than Stephen Carter, more pragmatic and compassionate than Shelby Steele, more forward-looking than Stanley Crouch." McWhorter says he's uncomfortable being associated with authors acclaimed by white conservatives and slammed by many blacks--but, hey, it goes with the territory. If you're a self-described "proper-talking black guy who's had all the advantages...
Throughout the history of science, people like Venter have been ridiculed for conducting science in an unorthodox manner, only to be applauded years later for their great work. That such a bold achievement was reached in part by a maverick scientist is a fitting introduction to a new era of medicine. HAROUT MEKHJIAN JR. Alpine...
...Deftones are crowded into a small dressing room in the bowels of the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, N.J., waiting for a chance to live up to their own hype. They didn't create all the multimedia fuss, not directly. Nonetheless, their recently released CD White Pony (Maverick) has garnered an enormous amount of buzz, that curious, often unreliable mix of critical adulation, street anticipation and well-orchestrated marketing. White Pony is supposed to be the album that "breaks" Deftones and places it in a league with the hottest hard-rock bands of the day, acts like Limp Bizkit...
...Sunday's speech, Mbeki dashed expectations that he'd back away from his earlier pronouncements. Referring to the AIDS phenomenon, Mbeki said "it seemed to me that we could not blame everything on a single virus." That left conference-goers disappointed and alarmed, as it was left to maverick populist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela to speak the simple truths about South Africa's AIDS crisis during a rally outside the conference that berated Mbeki's government for failing to act with the requisite urgency: HIV causes AIDS, she told protesters, and people infected need treatment drugs. After all, the salient reality...
...about as ridiculous as, well, as the notion that the leaders of North and South Korea would shake hands. Robertson, founder and CEO of MP3.com was trying to turn the music business on to the MP3 revolution, but all the suits saw was a maverick who went around claiming that they were dinosaurs who didn't get it. And when he launched the My.MP3.com service that allowed users to copy their CDs into his online folders and listen to them from anywhere they chose, those dinosaurs won a copyright-infringement court case that threatened to take the upstart dotcom...