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Milton won his prominence in a bareknuckle corporate brawl. Only a few weeks after assuming the presidency in August 1999, he was hit with a hostile takeover bid backed by AMR, parent of American Airlines. Milton won a court verdict reaffirming a law that said no single shareholder could own more than 10% of Air Canada, effectively scuttling the bid. Then, with backing from United Airlines and Lufthansa, Air Canada swallowed its competitor for a fire-sale $61 million. Milton summed up his business philosophy: "I don't mess around with other people, and I don't like people messing...
...course, it was Bush who first went to the federal courts and first to the U.S. Supreme Court. For Bush, who has made a mantra of local control, this is like trashing the big bully behind his back and then enlisting his services when you get in a brawl. You'll notice that the Bush campaign called the Florida Supreme Court an "instrument of the Democratic party" when it agreed to let the manual count continue, but were silent about the court's bias when it rejected Gore's emergency appeal to force Miami-Dade to resume its recount...
...Bronx, has attended a game or two in Queens and has downed a beer or three at Gallagher's. "Clemens is my guy, but I'd like to see him digging in against Leiter or Hampton," says Padden, popping peanuts. "This Series absolutely should have a bench-clearing brawl. Hey, this is New York. Let's have some...
Hearing Vice President Al Gore and George W. Bush parry over who has the tougher testing regime on Tuesday night, you'd think you were caught in the middle of a good old my-dad-can-beat-up-your-dad schoolyard brawl. You'd be right. And it's not just wannabe residents of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue who are in this tussle. As the stakes of standardized tests have risen dramatically over the past few years, tying student promotion and teacher bonuses to the results of one stressful afternoon darkening ovals with a no. 2 pencil, some parents have begun...
...side by side, and there's no question whom you'd want backing you up in a barroom brawl. Fox is a six-five bruiser who oozes physical self-confidence; Labastida at five-ten comes across as something of a wimp - not least because he's perceived as clinging to the skirt of his powerful and intelligent wife, Maria Teresa, who has drawn comparisons with Hillary Clinton. When Fox some weeks ago punned on Labastida's name, dubbing him "La vestida" (meaning "the dressed woman" or "the skirt"), he started a machismo bidding war that made the campaign look like...