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Let's be careful: Kenny Kunene should not be allowed to become the poster-boy of achievement in the new South Africa.
Danny Groner: South Africa's Sushi Scandal: A Timeline Danny Groner 2011
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Let's be careful: Kenny Kunene should not be allowed to become the poster-boy of achievement in the new South Africa.
Danny Groner: South Africa's Sushi Scandal: A Timeline Danny Groner 2011
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He has become the poster-boy for Wall Street greed and has earned the especial ire of the Occupy movement, which recently marched to his digs on Park Avenue to offer to help him pack his bags and go wreak havoc somewhere else.
Lynn Parramore: Vampire Squid Watch: Four Scary Economic Trends for 2012 Lynn Parramore 2012
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Let's be careful: Kenny Kunene should not be allowed to become the poster-boy of achievement in the new South Africa.
Danny Groner: South Africa's Sushi Scandal: A Timeline Danny Groner 2011
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This last phrase calls to mind the Nazi poster-boy Heydrich, handsome in appearance, foul in deed.
In the World of Night and Fog Allan Massie 2011
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He has become the poster-boy for Wall Street greed and has earned the especial ire of the Occupy movement, which recently marched to his digs on Park Avenue to offer to help him pack his bags and go wreak havoc somewhere else.
Lynn Parramore: Vampire Squid Watch: Four Scary Economic Trends for 2012 Lynn Parramore 2012
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Becoming the poster-boy for domestic violence might not be the greatest career move – right?
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It is ironic that Jack Bauer – poster-boy of the GOP of Torture – is played by a Canadian whose maternal grandfather was Tommy Douglas.
Matthew Yglesias » Culture and Size and Scope of Government 2010
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The English-language Indian press, written in a code-laden register reminiscent of Variety, talks of him as the ‘poster-boy’ for the ‘saffron party’.
Bombs, slums, and brightly-coloured balloons « Squares of Wheat 2009
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Let's be careful: Kenny Kunene should not be allowed to become the poster-boy of achievement in the new South Africa.
Danny Groner: South Africa's Sushi Scandal: A Timeline Danny Groner 2011
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