Word: provocateur
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...knack for lighting political fires. His allies say the 11-year President of Taiwan is simply a determined nationalist following the wishes of the vast majority of his electorate. But domestic critics call him a loose cannon, and his adversaries in Beijing regard him as a truly dangerous provocateur. While he likes to talk and often does so injudiciously, Lee is a shrewd politician consciously engaged in a high-risk game of chicken with China...
Tripp's lawyers deny she was an agent provocateur. They say she made the tapes to protect herself--if she told the truth about the affair in a Jones deposition, she'd need some evidence--and that she wanted Lewinsky to keep the stained dress as protection against potential White House charges that Monica was a delusional stalker. Far from trying to set Lewinsky up, they say, Tripp was trying to shield her. If she pointed out the storytelling benefits of a presidential affair, she also called the relationship "sick" and urged Monica to end it. And she asked Monica...
WASHINGTON: Never mind Salon. Now that Hustler magazine has waded into the scandal arena, will any congressman's "youthful indiscretions" be sacred? A cool million bucks was what publisher and habitual agent provocateur Larry Flynt offered anyone with "documentary evidence" of "an adulterous sexual encounter with a current member of the United States Congress or a high-ranking government official." By taking out a full-page ad in the Washington Post Sunday, Flynt showed he's as serious as he ever gets; after all, every decent D.C. correspondent knows where the bodies are -- or were -- buried...
Lucianne Goldberg, the literary agent, provocateur and fairy godmother to the Ken Starr report, has often condemned Bill Clinton for preying on the naive intern Monica Lewinsky. But a younger Lucianne Goldberg--Goldberg the writer--is the author of a work that Lewinsky could easily have used as a guide in her frolicsome thong baring. The 1971 book, co-written with Jeannie Sakol, is a 174-page critique of feminism called Purr, Baby, Purr, in which the authors advise women to "Stop Bitching! Be a Pussycat!" by exulting in their feminine wiles...
Friends don't tape friends, so could we all quit calling Linda Tripp anything but the spy-provocateur she is? Nothing in this mess is more inexplicable than how anyone could record, day after day, the most intimate details, real or imagined, of another person's life. Tripp claims to have so insinuated herself into Lewinsky's life that the two had a sleepover at Monica's apartment. That was the night Tripp claims the President phoned at 2 a.m. Lewinsky's lawyer says Tripp "was never privy" to such a call...