Word: scoundrelism
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Roiling these backwaters are two powerful, charismatic figures, Raphael Hunter, an outright scoundrel, and Albion Pugh, who is more of a chronic liar and gifted fabulist. Both men are effortlessly successful with women: Ramsay loses his wife to Hunter and a beloved cousin to Pugh. He envies Pugh's "capacity to mythologise existence . . . his charm and his whatever it was he had instead of genius...
...receives 80 Swiss francs (U.S.$50) a month from the U.S. government -- more than enough to pay for a steady supply of his favorite cookies, Oreos. He spends his time studying classified documents, talking on his government-tapped phone and watching Spanish-language soap operas. Like many a cornered scoundrel, he claims to have undergone a sudden religious conversion...
...change by no means assures his victory, even though white supremacist Duke has been disavowed by the Republican , leadership and the flamboyant Edwards was paraded before the public in the course of two corruption trials that ended in acquittal. In Louisiana politics, being a scoundrel is not necessarily a liability...
...government does, but instead make their voices heard to right the wrongs that they see. The true patriot takes the burden of expressing what (s)he thinks is best for the country, and not simply falling into the false patriotism that Emerson described as "the last refuge of a scoundrel...
...policymakers risk disappointment and worse if they think they can solve the crisis of the moment by getting rid of the scoundrel of the hour. Experts on Iraq have conjured up a number of post-Saddam "succession scenarios" that would be no improvement on the current situation. "There are people waiting in the wings who make Saddam look like an eagle scout by comparison," says a top U.S. intelligence official...