Word: prankster
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What's the difference between a militant extremist who sends anthrax in an envelope and a nitwit prankster who sends cornstarch? Both are terrorists, sowing fear and wreaking havoc. Their actions have malignant and far-reaching consequences. Hoaxers should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. ALEXANDER J. WERTH Farmville...
...waiting for my train when a prankster called a bomb threat into the station. I found myself once again running frantically out of the building with everyone else. Once we were reassured that it was merely a cruel joke, I returned to the station and boarded my train to Boston, where I was met by my boyfriend and finally stopped worrying that I would never see him again...
...reportedly took several weeks for Amazon to remove this comment - obviously the work of a prankster with a bowel fixation. But on the World Wide Web, the portals are open to everyone with an opinion, even if he is not who he seems. In 2001, everyone?s a critic, with his own cute handle (such as Chuck Schwartz, Cranky Critic?) or year-end 10 Best list (Harry Knowles of the popular ain't-it-cool-news.com picked the defiantly weird Requiem for a Dream as his No. 1). The web is where traditional criticism is democratized, where the ?lite meet defeat...
...Lefika is the innocent prankster on the court, Harvard co-captain Deepak Abraham is the consummate professional. He is stoic and focused, and he is determined to make every shot count. He's also got a lot to teach his fellow opponents because he too has played throughout the world and knows what it means to excel...
...would Averell be? Probably Puck, the in-your-face prankster from MTV's Real World, he says...