Word: outspoken
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...Asked about the country's new government, al-Douri said he respects those in the political process who oppose the presence of the U.S.-led coalition force - a reference to Sunni politicians who have been outspoken critics of the U.S. military presence - but urged them to quit the process "because they and the agents, traitors, and spies who are with them are incapable of offering anything to the people while under the occupation...
Another friend, Laurel A. Macey, said that Ekperi “was very outgoing, exuberant, very outspoken, laughed easily. She had a good sense of humor and dedication to whatever...
...very outgoing, exuberant, very outspoken, laughed easily. She had a good sense of humor and dedication to whatever she did," Laurel A. Macey ‘09 said...
Wole Soyinka, 71, was the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1986. The author of some 20 plays, seven novels and several collections of poetry, he has also been an outspoken critic of Nigerian despots since the 1960s and mediated between indigenous people and oil companies in the Niger Delta. His latest work, a memoir, is titled You Must Set Forth at Dawn. Last week, he met Time's Andrew Purvis and Regine Wosnitza in Berlin. Why did you decide to write a new memoir and what have you learned from it? That is a good...
...President and was Paris' mayor for 18 years before that; its inauguration offers him a rare respite from the political failures that have plagued his final years in office. Chirac himself decided in 1999 to award the museum project to Nouvel, a Socialist voter who had been an outspoken critic of Chirac's urban policies. It was a felicitous choice: Stéphane Martin, the museum's president, who has worked closely with Nouvel since then, says, "We have never gotten mad at one another, which in the French tradition of such collaborations is remarkable." To some degree, that must...