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In the years since 2004’s Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Penn’s carved out a niche embodying big-talking, attention-grabbing rascals who say inappropriate things, then shrug their way through the consequences.—
Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
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In a time when unemployment is on the rise and the rich are running amok and wreaking havoc on the poor — and the social services in place to support them — who doesn’t love the idea of rogue rascals sticking it to a bougie institution by running off with its crown jewels?—
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And the Sharks have no obvious replacement for him — no young whippersnapper in the pipeline ready for his moment.—
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And Markey has defeated whippersnapper-type political foes before.—
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Gods of Egypt is actually told from the point of view of a young rapscallion named Bek, played by Brenton Thwaites.—
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Actual: When two rapscallion owners work together to stack a team with their best players, usually when one of the rat-bastards has been eliminated from the playoffs.—
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In Victorious Cupid, Caravaggio demolished Renaissance ideals of the chubby, celestial putto by depicting a young god with the body of an Adonis and the face and feet of a cheeky street urchin.—
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After the multi-year marine heatwave hit the North Pacific in late 2013, warmer ocean temperatures that followed not only stressed kelp but also worsened the spread of sea star wasting disease that wiped out sunflower sea stars — one of the purple urchin’s main predators.—
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After China made investments in Panama, El Salvador, and the Dominican Republic, all three countries agreed to cut their diplomatic ties with Taiwan, which Beijing views as a rogue province.—
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This represents a breakdown in checks and balances, and a lack of political courage on the part of Republicans to constrain a rogue president.—
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Initial sightings suggested there were four monkeys, but Hauser said officials were unable to confirm the exact number.—
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City officials have urged residents not to approach the monkeys and to contact authorities instead.—
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There was too much grief becoming a sudden widow, too much loneliness raising an infant born less than five months before his father's tragic death.—
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And with an infant son at home, and the early mornings that come with that, trips to the Strip have been only for games with the Golden Knights.—
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Mykal-Michelle Harris from Raven’s Home guest-stars as Ruby, a mischievous moon imp who tricks Vee.—
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It’s believed that the 13th-century castle is haunted by a magical imp who frequently visits the Markomanka and Hlíza, or black, towers.—
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“Jackanapes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jackanapes. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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