Word: hardheadedness
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Having written elaborate treatises on philosophy, social theory and the nature of communication--even his dissertation on the rise of "the public sphere" transformed media studies into a hardheaded discipline--he regularly takes to European Op-Ed pages with lucidity and passion. A man of the left who rose from...
X-men, The Matrix and an angry green giant - all year long, pixel-pushing superheroes have been smashing their way across cinema screens. In Ireland, a quieter kind of crime fighter is pulling in the crowds: Cate Blanchett as Veronica Guerin, the Irish reporter who went head to head with...
Oswaldo Paya is something Cuban President Fidel Castro has rarely, if ever, faced: a dissident as hardheaded as he is. When Castro took power in 1959, Paya was the only kid in his Havana primary school who refused to become a Communist Youth member. In high school, after openly criticizing...
When Cuban president Fidel Castro took power, in 1959, Oswaldo Payá was in primary school - the only kid in the entire school who refused to become a Communist Youth member. In high school, after openly criticizing the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Payá was sent to a Cuban...
"He has been the strongest foe of the Taliban," says Mahmood Karzai, 47, a brother living in Boston. "I always told him to leave Pakistan because I thought he was in danger, but he stayed because he is hardheaded." Unlike most Afghan men, who marry in their early 20s, Karzai...