Word: mavericks
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...professional competence," presumably moral theology, but not at the Vatican-chartered graduate theology school. Curran pronounced the decision a "vindication of academic freedom in Catholic education." A senior Vatican official notes that Rome never required the school to "fire" Curran, but officialdom will surely seethe when the maverick resumes teaching at a high-profile Catholic campus...
...even those maverick producers seem ready to consider tightening their spigots. Last week in London, petroleum experts from non-OPEC countries met in an emergency session to discuss ways to mop up the glut. But OPEC is unlikely to follow suit. Saudi Arabia's Hisham Nazer and other oil ministers seem hesitant to discuss cutbacks, since some OPEC members flout existing quotas...
...that I'll have no unemployment problem." An animal fancier who keeps newts and lizards, Livingstone may never reach 10 Downing Street, but his irreverence will probably help keep him on the public stage for years to come. That is, if he doesn't tire of playing the flamboyant maverick. "Anyone who enjoys being in the House of Commons," he said after his recent expulsion, "probably needs psychiatric care...
...return to the law-and-order of a more innocent time. In recent weeks the Paterson principal has found himself not only the subject of network news reports but also a sought-after guest on TV talk shows. CBS's 60 Minutes has shot a segment on the maverick educator, and Warner Bros. has snapped up the rights to his life story ("six figures," plus a percentage of the net, for Joe), with Sidney Poitier as a possible star. "Isn't it something," Clark beams, "that this little black Newark welfare boy is the most popular man in America right...
...more than merely political and situational; it is rooted in anger at an iconoclast who scorns convention. Mocking the pretensions and smugness of the system is not a new pose for Hart: he did it as George McGovern's campaign manager in 1972 and as a new breed of maverick candidate in 1984. As in his personal life, he tries to live above the accepted rules. Now he has embarked on the most daring odyssey of a public career built entirely on risk, and the political power structure looks on in % horror and asks...