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...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...

Author: By June Q. Wu | Title: What goes around comes around... | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...Finally making explicit the class warfare between the sexy-snooty vampires and their vassals, Rise of the Lycans establishes Lucian as your basic pulp hero: lumpen nobleman, rabble-rouser and messiah. He's part Jesus, especially in the Gospel according to Mel Gibson (Lucian takes a lashing and keeps on gnashing), and part Spartacus, come to free the slaves - or are they pets - kept by the vampire overlords. In a dungeon or on a dark redoubt, Lucian offers his surly band of rebels "freedom and immortality!" (Wasn't that Tony Blair's campaign slogan when Labour ousted the Tories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Underworld 3: Me No Lycan | 1/23/2009 | See Source »

...Overlooking Central Park," ended up in his mail box. The man who knew everybody had the knack of making millions of strangers feel they knew him. That's the talent of a politician more than a journalist. But as The Unseen Alistair Cooke reveals, the man was no rabble-rouser. He was a rabble-raiser. People on the other end of one of Alistair Cooke's tours felt smarter and warmer, thinking they knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alistair Cooke: PBS's Rock Star | 11/23/2008 | See Source »

...Goodman ’84, a rabble rouser since her days living the Dudley Co-op, was named a winner of the Right Livelihood Award last week, an honor known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize...

Author: By Adeline S. Rolnick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Grad Nabs Progressive Prize | 10/6/2008 | See Source »

...image hit is likely to cost China more than any activism Cheek would have done during the Games. Although he's the co-founder of Team Darfur, an international coalition of athletes pushing for reform in the Sudan, he's not exactly rabble-rouser. In our interview, Cheek said he was not planning any organized protests, and he had yet to set up any meetings with government officials. He's extremely sensitive to the fact that many Olympic athletes have trained their whole lives for this brief shining moment, and if taking up the Darfur cause is a distraction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China To Athlete Activist: Stay Out! | 8/6/2008 | See Source »

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