Word: outcaste
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...OUTCAST...
...possible that all these years we've been blaming the wrong kids for stealing our milk money. The image of the schoolyard bully as a disaffected social outcast or a hulking denizen of shop class is a familiar one and a staple of teenage lore. But as researchers and teachers grow increasingly sensitive to the issue of school violence, they are studying bullying more closely and finding that the stereotypes are often misleading...
...lines that alternate and repeat, then come together at the end and mean something. A villanelle is supposed to be elegiac. What's elegiac again? Concupiscent ducks fly in a crazy syntax over powerboats throbbing in the canal. A mole slinks back to his underworld kennel. Succinct, admirable outcast. I paddle down the stream of unconsciousness. I used to look forward to summer...
...against whose supporters Hafez and Bashar, of late, have conducted a campaign of violent harassment. Rifaat made clear Monday that, having held the title of deputy president before his ouster, he, and not Bashar, should succeed Hafez Assad. Syria's security forces have pledged to arrest the outcast uncle should he attempt to come home, but that hasn't stopped him from stirring up trouble...
...assume the role of reluctant heir - as late as March, Bashar insisted to a London-based newspaper that he had no presidential ambitions. And in a twist as familiar in "The Lion King" as it was in the royal succession in neighboring Jordan, Hafez Assad has an outcast brother, Rifaat, with presidential ambitions, against whom he'd waged a sometimes vicious power struggle. The fact that the president died before completely clearing Bashar's path to power will certainly raise the temptation for Rifaat to stake his own claim...