Word: outspoken
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...Saturday in October, several dozen of China's most outspoken men and women converged on an artists' colony in the mountains outside Beijing at a meeting of the unofficial Chinese branch of the global writers' association PEN International. The occasion: the awarding of a literary prize to author Zhang Yihe for her account of the traumatic anti-intellectual purges of the late 1950s. Such a gathering shows how far contemporary Chinese cultural life has come from the brutal days described in Zhang's book, when participants in similar events were sent to prison...
...that supports terrorism and opposes the Arab-Israeli peace process could get its hands anywhere near an atom bomb. Iranian reformers clearly understand that position. "If we have a democratic government, the world could trust it" on nuclear matters, says Reza Khatami, brother of President Mohammed Khatami and an outspoken reformer who was disqualified from seeking re-election to parliament this year. Iranian leaders were clearly concerned about U.S. pressure, says a European diplomat in Tehran, "or they wouldn't have bothered negotiating with us." Three days after Bush was re-elected, the Supreme Leader made a conciliatory gesture...
...Europe's biggest automaker when he settles into the new job over the next 12 months. Volkswagen, which is projected to lose $1.2 billion in the U.S. this year because of a falling dollar and a lack of exciting new models, badly needs a boost. For the outspoken Bernhard, 44, cutting costs won't be easy. VW last month agreed to guarantee jobs for 103,000 German employees. But Bernhard is not afraid to make a splash. Executives in Detroit still talk about his dramatic entrance at an auto show last year riding a Tomahawk, a one-of-a-kind...
...most politically outspoken American actors working today is Sean Penn. His past as Hollywood’s bad boy has been eclipsed in recent years by his staunch political beliefs and critiques of those he believes to be harming America. His most recent battle of words was the aforementioned exchange with Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the “brains” behind Team America: World Police. That film, which features a troupe of puppets fighting world terrorism takes a number of shots at liberal, outspoken actors like Matt Damon...
People thought he was angry, reclusive and scary. Aside from a few allies who have remained his closest friends, they approached him cautiously and skeptically. White girls, he says, would run the other way when they saw him walking home through the Yard at night. Outspoken and homesick, he turned to the Black Men’s Forum (BMF), where he found a group of friends who felt just as alienated. By the end of his junior year, Terry had become president of the organization, transforming it from a relatively small social network into one of the college?...