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...kidnappers said they had made contact with Waddah's family. But Haseeba and her other sons, believing him to be dead, had already held a wake for him. Now they refused to believe that he was alive, rejecting the kidnappers' ransom demand as either a terrible prank or an opportunist's attempt to capitalize on their loss. "They are not going to pay," the interrogator told Waddah. "We're not sure what to do with you." Later that day, Waddah was taken to the interrogation room--his first visit in nearly a week. He was hooded again because, the guards...
...Yorker, and the two of them spoke for more than 20 hours over the course of the next four months. Nasar’s story appeared in the magazine in late August. In it, she and her co-writer, David Gruber, intimated that Yau was a slippery opportunist, not-so-vaguely accusing him of conspiring to seize credit for solving the Conjecture even though a reclusive Russian named Grigory Perelman had done it first. According to the article, Perelman had posted a solution to the Poincare online, without even bothering to formally publish in an accredited math journal. The luminaries...
...surveyed in the TIME poll said they had no opinion of her, positive or negative. She is the inkblot test of a polarized electorate. In the TIME poll, Democrats overwhelmingly describe her as a strong leader (77%) who has strong moral values (69%). Republicans by and large see an opportunist who would say or do anything to further her political ambitions (68%) and puts her political interests ahead of her beliefs (60%). As for independents, more than half (53%) of those surveyed said they would not support her, with 34% putting themselves in the "definitely not" category...
...riots of November, and two months of violent youth protests over labor reform this year. Able to claim he'd long denounced the mass immigration and bleeding heart permissiveness he has blamed the rioting and demonstrations on, Le Pen has been effective in mocking de Villiers as a calculating opportunist - or, as his daughter and potential successor called de Villiers, a political "vulture...
...breakdown of multi-ethnic Yugoslavia, but he can be assigned the bulk of responsibility. He had a unique talent for bringing out the worst in everything and everybody he touched. He brought out the worst in Serbs, and provoked retaliatory responses from the Croats, Bosnians, and Albanians. A political opportunist, he picked up ideologies such as nationalism, socialism, and even democracy itself, and perverted them to suit his own needs, discarding them when they no longer served his purposes. He burned bridges between nations and peoples that took centuries to build in the Balkans. And by doing that, he poisoned...