Word: rebel
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...days of Austria's far right, in which politicians, including Haider, commended Adolf Hitler's employment programs or spoke sympathetically to groups of former Wehrmacht officers, are over. Instead, Strache, 39, is presenting himself as a rebel and an outsider...
...application video “Impossible Is Nothing” made the rounds on the Internet. Yet Matt di Pasquale is notable not because he deviates from Harvard’s social norms but because carries them to their logical extremes. The father of Diamond is not a rebel so much as the archetypal Harvard Man, right down to his professed love of two of Harvard’s largest classes, Justice and Positive Psychology. His self-authored biography reads not like a dissident’s manifesto, but instead sounds vaguely like a bizarre college essay or cover letter...
...outwardly expressing anger is viewed as common for the simple reason that it is a feeling that has been established as universal: a right of passage for the under-20 set (cf. any movie about high-schoolers ever) and an iconized behavior of the cool (cf. “Rebel Without a Cause” or any show on the CW) that in the lower end of the cool spectrum is more often than not poorly mimed (cf. Lily, who has recently decided that she will only respond to her new name Veona, by the way). Needless...
...promised to hold by 2010. Andrew Welsh, the town's SNP representative in the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, has a copy of the Declaration of Arbroath on his wall and, if pushed, will wax lachrymose about great Scottish kings like "William the Lion" and "Scotland's right to rebel against tyranny." Yet, he's far more interested in explaining how he helped secure a new road linking Arbroath to the nearby city of Dundee, which has brought young professionals to live here and given locals better prospects for commuting to a larger job market...
...Democracy is a process, not a destination.' JARDO MUEKALIA, representative for Angola's Unita, a rebel movement turned opposition party, on the nation's first election in 16 years. Unita later lost by a landslide...