You're just not going to put the cuddly rapscallion down, no matter what he does.

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Only 18 months ago, this political rapscallion of old hijacked the top job in Germany's Social Democratic opposition and then quietly lifted it off the political floor.

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Fifteen years ago, the movie's class-war theme -- the swells in their tuxedoes lounging amid the Titanic's creamy classical splendor, versus the lugs in steerage, led by Leonardo DiCaprio's penniless rapscallion bohemian Jack -- seemed a fairly standard old-movie trope.

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