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...problems with crime and decline. During his campaign for a second four-year term in 1975, for instance, the blustery former police chief offered Philadelphians a typically unpunctuated promise: "Just wait after November you'll have a front row seat because I'm going to make Attila the Hun look like a faggot...
...Attila was a moody man . . . Nobody truly knew him except his mother, who sent him two hair shirts every winter...
...minted Author John Ehrlichman; Knopf only knows where it will appear next. All of which prompted Christian Science Monitor Columnist-at-Large (and TIME Books Contributor) Melvin Maddocks to weigh in last week with excerpts from a recently discovered 5th century manuscript titled I Was Never Really Close to Attila the Hun. Samples...
...people have said Attila was none too bright . . . Some of his aides called him 'Turniphead' behind his back . . . I never called him that, though I have to admit that the subtleties of foreign relations were definitely not his forte...
...justice to Attila, he honestly did want to make the world safe for Huns . . . When I found out what a weak, pitiable man he really was, I felt it my duty. . . to stay around the White Tent and keep things from getting completely out of control. For I was the only moderating influence. . . I kept saying: 'All right. Kill the women, Attila. But why can't we spare children under four?' " You get the idea...