Word: provocateur
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...ground is no place for a champion"). He obviously continues to enjoy a deep well of support among African Americans. But there's also no doubt that the hyenas are moving in. Or that the leader of the pack is the Rev. Al Sharpton, 46, the flamboyant former provocateur from New York City who was once Jackson's protege and is now his biggest rival...
...culture of Bahia, her native region in Brazil. Her music is axé music (a word derived from the Yoruba word for life force or positive energy). Within her sound is relentless percussion, samba, reggae and a pinch of merengue. Like Madonna, she's a bit of a sexual provocateur. On her album "Feijao Comarroz," Mercury, who is light-skinned, appears hugging a strong, broad-backed, dark-skinned black figure; turn the album over and you see that the figure is a broad-backed, dark-skinned black woman...
Consider the United Nations' response to the recent crisis: three resolutions that all condemn Israel. One of these pointed to Ariel Sharon as agent provocateur in this crisis and labeled Israel as an "occupying power." The second voted to set up an inquiry into the violence, and the third, passed on Friday, had 92 countries condemning the "excessive use of violence" by the State of Israel. None of these resolutions had the support of Israel or of the United States, and chances are that none will have any significant impact on the current crisis. If the crisis evolves into...
Robert Stepto, the acting head of the Afro-American studies program at Yale, in an interview with Yale Daily News, called Gates a "saboteur and even a provocateur." Stepto said Gates is still angry that he was once denied tenure at Yale and is trying to diminish the reputation of the Yale program...
...around him as Germany is seduced by the allure of Nazism, and then ?- as a dwarf ?- gains privileged access to the elite of the Third Reich. Its bold exploration of issues postwar Germany was doing its best to forget made its author a legendary social critic and literary provocateur. He became strongly identified with Germany?s political left, and in 1990 was criticized for rejecting the speedy reunification of East and West Germany. "In his later writing, he took partisan political positions," says Gray. "But in ?The Tin Drum? he sides broadly with humanity against Nazism...