Word: rousers
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...depends on whom you ask. Some people think I’m boringly well-behaved and some probably think I’m a bit of a rabble-rouser. I helped organize the faculty union, and some thought I was not well=behaved in doing that. But I’ve been married to the same man for 51 years, and that’s pretty well-behaved, I think...
...There were also the old standbys - Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. But by and large, this was not the sort of group you'd expect to see leading a Jena Six rally. Gates himself is more a Cosby conservative than a rabble-rouser; he once wrote, "Are white racists forcing black teenagers to drop out of school or to have babies?" And though he studies race for a living, he's not particularly interested in being divisive or controversial. In short, he's one of the last people you'd expect to be led off his front porch in bracelets...
...library is only a day job. Within the staff community at Harvard, Geoff Carens is a well-known rabble-rouser who has garnered a reputation as a radical leftist. Over the years, Carens and a core group of about 10 HUCTW members—collectively known as “Reform HUCTW”—have waged public counter-attacks against the University. The battle cry has grown even stronger in a time of marked financial strain...
That kind of attitude has long characterized so-called Euro-skepticism. But Ganley's money and political ambition has some rattled. Like other Euro MPs, British Liberal Democrat member of the European Parliament Andrew Duff dismisses Ganley as a rabble-rouser out for publicity. "It's utter balls to say he represents democracy," Duff says. "Scratch the surface and you'll discover he's a demagogue and a Europhobe." But Duff is also worried that Ganley could appeal to disgruntled European voters. "There is a real danger that this simplistic populism will strike a chord with voters that are profoundly...
...pool manager called the cops on Adams upon recognizing a megaphone-wielding rabble-rouser perched on his lifeguard chair in a photo gracing the front of today's Crimson. At the indignant alleged chair-owner's behest, HUPD officers promptly cut the bike lock securing the chair to one of Adam's guardian lions and toted the chair out of the dining hall...