When a program strays, the NCAA singles it out as roguish, a label that allows the lucrative NCAA ecosystem to escape serious investigation.

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If deterrence worked against a heavily-armed Soviet Union, ask sceptical Europeans, why would it not work against a roguish regime with just a handful of rockets?

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This enabled him to secure the services of Brad Pitt, who turned in a career highlight performance as a roguish Irish-gypsy smuggler with a barely-comprehensible accent.

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As the famously roguish Casanova, Malkovich bears an imperious and occasionally self-mocking air, whether eloquently philosophizing, wading into the action himself, or merely watching his younger self carouse.

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He hires as a caretaker a street thug born in Senegal, Driss (Omar Sy), who treats him with an abundance of pity, and the two men form a roguish friendship.

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Jack Davenport plays the young, roguish gentleman who vies for Lady Windermere's affections - quite a change from his most famous role, as Steve in the ranchy BBC sitcom Coupling.

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Doing something serious about their most roguish member would be a good way to prove wrong those doubters (including your columnist) who see ASEAN doomed by its own inaction to irrelevance.

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Coming on the heels of The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844), in which a financially strapped and roguish outsider tries vainly to find a place in English society, Vanity Fair paints on a much broader canvass and finds the ultimate social climber in the talented, lovely and ever-conniving Becky Sharp.

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