Word: benito
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...guilty thrill to watch Mackey trample sleazebags and their liberties like a skinhead rhino--you feel complicit when he crosses the line, but he does get results. Mackey's rival, an ambitious precinct captain (Benito Martinez), is principled but ineffectual. Between them is Detective Claudette Wyms (C.C.H. Pounder), a middle-aged black woman in a white boys' clubhouse who keeps her own counsel...
...lesson of Osama - the shrunken, lower-case Osama - should have been one history had taught us already. Benito Mussolini seemed like a worthy member of the first Axis of Evil, until the country got a close look at him in the newsreels, comically soaking up the ovation of his people with his fists on his hips and his chin thrust out and that odd little party hat perched on his head. It was only then that we started to ask, Is this guy kidding or what? Nikita Kruschev was similarly supposed to scare the daylights...
...well armed and, observers fear, primed for regional expansion. A Philippine problem is now a world problem, and Arroyo is hoping for a world solution. The Catholic Church is calling for reconciliation, while others preach temperance. "We should not commit ourselves to the point of suicide," says political analyst Benito Lim. Arroyo appears willing to make dangerous bets, forging ahead with offers of military bases and banking reforms. "If we have to pay a price for conviction against terrorists," she says...
...Italy, perhaps, demonstrates the point. Nobody sensible imagines that Silvio Berlusconi, its new Prime Minister, is likely to exile his opponents to the Lipari Islands, as Benito Mussolini was wont to do. Nor does one necessarily have to agree with the Economist's famous pre-election pronunciamento that the cloud of criminal allegations surrounding Berlusconi made him "not fit to lead the government of any country." All you need to do is look at the record. The sheer scale of Berlusconi's financial and business dealings - when the state-owned networks and his own Mediaset empire are taken together...
...while the schoolyard bully Benito was chastened all those years ago by a nasty surprise at the hands of an unthinkable alliance, the effect on Washington of the U.N. vote may be quite different. If it was designed to get Washington to take international forums more seriously, the Europeans' gesture may have been ill-considered - because it may achieve exactly the opposite result, amplifying U.S. skepticism over involvement in the U.N. And therein lies the tragedy of the breakdown between the U.S. and its allies: They want Washington to play a leadership role in world affairs; at the same time...