For what the grotesquely overpaid outsider really brings to the table is hope.

Mr. Diaz, 33, is expected to give the kind of freshness to the project that an outsider can bring.

"We don't let outsiders bring guns into our house."

The outsider, the Starfleet officer from years ago, brought her hundred-year-old hands-on sense of justice to the modern era.

An outsider couldn't have brought the passion to the role that I did.

An outsider might bring with him value judgments about community norms, seeing certain traditions - like arranged marriages - as pathologies.

He said he believed an outsider would bring "fresh eyes" to tackle the industry's structural problems.

What the outsiders brought, or discovered in their struggle with the insiders, often led to new technical, intellectual and spiritual breakthroughs.

This is what McHogue, and all the outsiders before him, have brought to our world.

But the Somalis themselves are finding ways to cope beyond what outsiders bring them.