Word: mavericks
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...coming in to the political process may shun Zarqawi, but they appear to accept Baathist-led guerrilla fighters killing U.S. soldiers as part of the Sunni mainstream. Fears of full-blown sectarian warfare between Shiites and Sunnis, meanwhile, have prompted urgent mediation efforts by, among others, the firebrand Shiite maverick Moqtada Sadr. Sadr appears to be using the opportunity to regain political traction against rivals in organizations such as the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, which is the most influential party in the ruling coalition of prime minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari. But Sadr's efforts are based...
...feeling nauseous about the recent scapegoating of Newsweek would like to say we can’t believe that the government is getting away with such a dystopian shenanigan, but in fact, we can believe it. Of course it’s easier to blame some maverick reporter for screwing things up than to accept that the ruling structure of our great nation might actually be rotten to the core. Like Anakin did, Americans are seizing on the small errors of the few instead of the overarching wrongs of the powerful...
...says he began planning his drug-dealing scheme in earnest, DeLorean told a group of sports car dealers: 'We will do anything to keep this company alive.' But what he really seemed committed to keeping alive was an image of himself: John DeLorean, the smart and plucky maverick businessman, the high-stakes gambler who makes his own rules and always wins...
...highlight is an astonishing documentary on Welles’ final years that puts to rest all myths of him as a failure. Looking at parts of his unfinished works, included in the documentary, he clearly remained a maverick genius. He was misunderstood; everyone else was just catching up to his achievements in “Kane” when he was investigating this “Fake...
...government's alleged involvement, and he ordered all government ministries to cooperate fully. Declared the President: "If responsibility is proved, the guilty, at whatever level they find themselves, should be severely punished." The French intelligence agency denied official involvement in the attack, but other government insiders speculate that a maverick faction could have acted without high-level approval...