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Like any half-decent Hollywood thriller, every serious political brawl in Washington needs at least one good villain. It's not nearly as much fun or as easy to score points and hurl invective back and forth without a compelling one-dimensional character at the center of it all. Robert Bork played that role magnificently in his 1987 epic Supreme Court battle, as did Clarence Thomas in his more understated performance four years later. More recently, during the bloody conservative revolt over the Supreme Court nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers, the real villain turned...
...Fans vs. Miss Manners The Fan Man parachutes onto the ropes during the Bowe-Holyfield brawl. University of Wisconsin partisans run amuck after their football team beats Michigan. New Orleans quarterback Wade Wilson collapses in pain with a knee injury, and the hometown boors cheer. Now behave, people, or we'll send Vince Coleman after...
...Backyard Brawl, the Iron Bowl, the Red River Shootout, and the list goes...
...good one at a decent price--then six pigeons." But the scripts resort to contrivance and coincidence to keep the pair at the center of events. In Episode 2, a confrontation that precipitates Caesar's coming to power turns out to have been caused by a bar brawl Pullo got into. It's all a bit too Forrestus Gumpus...
...brawl in Detroit affect you? It was the worst. One, my little boy was there. Two, I just finished hip surgery, and I really felt helpless that I couldn?t do anything to correct the situation or alleviate it in any way. The most incredible thing was leaving the arena and watching the players? kids and how sad they were. How they reacted just blew me away. Even though it damaged our sport, hopefully we can all learn from it and move...