Word: mischiefism
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...Aussies refer to Conner as "Big Bad Dennis," but they regard him as a larrikin. In their singular idiom, a larrikin is someone with a highly developed sense of fun and mischief who is continuously in trouble and eternally forgiven. "I'm a larrikin?" Conner says. He likes that. In a perverse way, he has become an Australian hero, and there is an impression in Freo that even at their own expense, the Australians are ready to warm him with a chorus of "good on yer." Picturing the town without Cup or customers is a little sad, though. In Fremantle...
Singh quotes an Indian yogi to explain his fear of the nuclear dilemma. "Man is both the mischief maker and the tool for the liberation...
...their malevolence and mischief, viruses may have played an important, perhaps crucial, role in evolution. And now, as recombinant DNA technology advances, molecular biologists are engineering viruses that may ! soon benefit rather than devastate humans...
...insists otherwise. "We're not just keeping people out based on their ideology," protests INS Spokesman Verne Jervis. "We keep them out based on solid information that they are coming to this country to commit serious mischief." Lara's attorney, Arthur Helton, of the New York City-based Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights, says he plans to seek out the basis of the charges against her through requests under the Freedom of Information Act. "She questions whether she wants to come back," he says. "But it is important for her to obtain the right to come back...
...Secret Service would not confirm the account, but the White House apparently is equipped with secret sensors that can detect tiny amounts of radioactivity. The high technology has a good purpose. A nuclear device in this era of refined mischief could be as small as a fountain...