Word: outlaw
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This is a tender book. The outlaw Elvis, the performer one fan called "a great big beautiful hunk of forbidden fruit," the savvy, surly dreamer who once remarked to a reporter, "You can't be a rebel if you grin," is set forth here as a kind of perpetual lost boy who clung to the sure anchorage of his family and friends. But as the book closes, friends become salaried employees, and the hometown girls are outnumbered by stars flying in from Hollywood. Natalie Wood came to Memphis and lasted four days, stunned by the celebrity madness surrounding Elvis...
Indeed, the most serious objection we see to the proposal to outlaw rent control schemes comes not from defenders of Cambridge's policy--on that count, there is little to defend. Rather, the objection comes at a deeper level--whether the state should be able to dictate city policies, a reasonable question in many cases. But not in this...
...Massachusetts voters outlaw rent control in November, the ban would affect 16,000 Cambridge households--half its rental stock--and a quarter of the city's population, according to the executive director of the city's rent control board...
...many other people saying such nasty things about him? The head of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill calls Breggin "ignorant" and claims he's motivated by a lust for fame and wealth. The former director of the National Institute of Mental Health brands Breggin an "outlaw." The president of the American Psychiatric Association says the doctor is the modern equivalent of a "flat earther...
These policy divergences mirror real differences between the countries that, politically at least, outweigh their equally real similarities. The Haitian military clique that seized power in 1991 is an outlaw regime, scorned by nearly all other nations, that sustains its power over a terrorized populace by brute force. Yet its army is a rabble that could be swept aside by an American invasion force in a matter of days, if not hours. Cuba's communist government, by contrast, has survived 35 years of U.S. hostility and the collapse of its longtime patron, the Soviet Union. Despite growing anger and privation...