In the Digital Provocateur, I will examine how technology weaves into our daily lives.
Pakistan, as a result of its own internal mess, is the provocateur and instigator here.
My twelve-year-old twins had been read an excerpt from the book by their teacher, a well-known provocateur.
He was not a provocateur or a dissident, someone who might have expected to go down fighting.
Monteiro is co-founder of Mule Design in San Francisco, and a prolific speaker and design provocateur.
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But if provocation includes following the victim and harassing him, then Zimmerman may well qualify as a provocateur.
Niazi's supporters say he was entrapped by an agent provocateur and emphasize the informant's criminal record for forgery.
Muslims in Italy and elsewhere have called Mr Allam a provocateur and chided Pope Benedict for abetting him.
As a public figure he portrayed himself as a provocateur but never provoked so much that he jeopardised his personal freedom.
The life and ravings of the radical provocateur Abbie Hoffman, who probably needs an introduction as far as younger moviegoers are concerned.
China, no doubt, views Mr Lien as President Lee's man, and therefore, in its eyes, as a provocateur more than a conciliator.
Bagehot contemplated playing agent provocateur, trawling Bournemouth's bars to see whether he could trap some befuddled ruddy-faced delegate into some horrific racial slur.
Rather than quell the scrutiny, he stepped fully into the role of provocateur toying with critics and waffling continually between memory and myth in his life.
The theme of "Life During Wartime" is forgiveness and Mr. Solondz, stealth provocateur, sets up characters who deliberately test the limits of tolerance and charity.
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Suddenly transformed from art-house provocateur to heart-throb, Kassovitz took perhaps the most surprising role of his career, becoming the face of Lancome's Miracle Homme fragrance.
That would be Danish agent provocateur Mads Brugger, who greases several palms in a bid to get himself appointed the Liberian ambassador to the Central African Republic.
According to the conspiracy theory Strassmeir was an "agent provocateur", not only observing the activities of the far right but also encouraging them to do something illegal.
It was there where she "unexpectedly" sprang to fame as a model after following her friends' suggestions that she enter a competition held by lingerie retailer Agent Provocateur.
Still, beneath the pop-provocateur veneer, Sachs has always maintained a childlike awe of the golden age of industrial might and technology, most recently in his fascination with space exploration.
"Some are more famous than others and some are just talented young people who are around, " says Figgis, who recently directed model Kate Moss in a short film for lingerie company Agent Provocateur.
Arsene Wenger had called it "unacceptable behavior" -- but Chelsea counterpart Jose Mourinho made a novel defense for his agent provocateur Costa, likening the soccer star to a rugby player after yet another victory over Arsenal.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) For eight years, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has played the role of global provocateur-in-chief: questioning the Holocaust, saying Israel should be erased from the map and painting U.N resolutions as worthless.
"What is striking is he is such a great moderator-slash-provocateur of the emotion that lives within the fan base, " said Justin Connolly, the senior vice president for programming who will oversee the SEC Network for ESPN.
But the former member of the Bank of England's rate-setting committee is more than just a provocateur: His "Alice" paper presaged many of the imperfections and deficiencies in the euro's construction that have since become abundantly apparent.
And now the agent provocateur wielding a swinging axe across the public sector and a spate of tax increases says that the central bank is doing the right thing by looking beyond short-term factors causing above target price pressures.
But to complicate matters further, even a provocateur has the legal right to defend himself under Florida law if he can't escape and if he is in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm, as Zimmerman claims he was.
The lineup of speakers will include molecular biology pioneer Leroy Hood, co-founder of 23andMe Anne Wojcicki, scientific revolutionary and provocateur Eric Schadt, health insurance data analytics innovator Tina Brown-Stevenson, and founding CEO of Sun Microsystems Vinod Khosla, to name a few.
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The next Archbishop of Canterbury will also have to answer a more basic question: is the institution he heads part of the establishment, with an accepted role as its moral guide, or is it called on to be a provocateur, speaking its own version of truth to power?
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