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Dershowitz also posed the first question of the night, asking if “an intellectual provocateur could be a successful university president...
Paglia—the university professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia— is a cultural critic, provocateur, and one of the top twenty public intellectuals in the world, according to a Foreign Policy magazine survey this fall...
...many in the audience were hoping for insider comments on potential candidates for 2008, Dean was mum on who might be his party’s nominee. Dean’s image in the media is misguided, some attendees said yesterday. “Howard Dean can be a provocateur,” Kolic wrote, “but what he fundamentally does by that is energize his supporters, not damage them...
...just six weeks. Instead he leads me behind a boudoir-pink wall to a pretty blond in a matching pink uniform. She's wrapping a stack of saucy lingerie items for two women who are entirely veiled, including burqas. When they leave, Lisa Hastings, the manager of Agent Provocateur, explains that they are a mother and daughter shopping for the daughter's wedding lingerie, adding that she sells plenty of "playful" underwear to women wearing abayas. The shop's best-selling item? "The jeweled whip," Hastings says. "We can hardly keep them in stock...
...weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.” Thus said John F. Kennedy on September 25, 1961. Yet today, we still live in a world made ever more dangerous by the increased proliferation, rather than planned reduction, of nuclear technology and weapons. Iran, the provocateur in the most recent nuclear controversy, has been “banned” by an international treaty from enriching uranium. Many international bodies have stressed the importance of preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons, with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) scheduled to consider referral of Iran...