Word: mischiefism
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...would skip class sometimes and rarely did his homework. But he was good-natured and kind, so his parents never worried. And Herrgott did owe some gratitude to the classroom: he met his future fiance Sara McWilliams, with him at right, at summer school. Given his penchant for mischief, Herrgott surprised his family when he announced in his senior year that he wanted to be a police officer. To earn money for his training, he joined the Army, just as his cousin T.J. Kewatt had done a year earlier. As kids the two had spent hours playing with...
...prompted unfair scrutiny of their way of life, also question the F.A.W.C. motives. "It's most disturbing," says Aziz Pasha, head of the Union of Muslim Organizations. "Why are we going through this again?" F.A.W.C. chair Judy MacArthur Clark rejects any claim of bias, saying such allegations are "just mischief-making. We're looking at the issue purely from an animal-welfare aspect." She also stresses that the report - the F.A.W.C.'s second in 17 years to call for an end to slaughter without stunning - has been in the works for four years. Similar exchanges took place in Switzerland last...
...Idleness can breed mischief, and the authorities worry that deep disappointment among former Falintil fighters could lead to unrest. In the remote Hatolia area in the mist-filled forests south of Dili, villagers accuse the shadowy group Colimau 2000, composed of ex-guerrillas and disaffected East Timorese villagers, of extorting money from them. In Hatolia town, locals tell of being robbed at night by a gang led by a disgruntled Falintil veteran. Australian peacekeepers now patrol the area. "We are scared," says Antonio Salsinha, a resident from the nearby town of Ermera, "because we hear (Colimau 2000) rejects the authority...
Maya Simon ’06 also looked up to the young mischief maker. “I just thought she was really cool because even though she never listened to her parents it always worked out okay,” Simon reminisces. “I was never really good at being bad, so Anastasia was kind of a role model for me – something to aspire to. When I suggested buying gerbils and breeding them like Anastasia did in one of her books, my parents were not quite as thrilled with my choice of heroines...
Evil, these critics say, is in any case such an elusive term that it can only cause mischief in human affairs and has a way of evaporating--or turning into something else as time passes. Toward the end of World War I, when labor unions threatened strikes in England, Minister of Munitions Winston Churchill sternly blamed "evil and subterranean influences," meaning, he said, "pacifism, defeatism and Bolshevism." Of course, the real evils of World War I, which slaughtered an entire generation of Europe's young men, were obdurate military stupidity, the effectiveness of newly industrialized war and a monstrous official...