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These people today would be called enablers, and none was worse than his tempestuous Irish wife Caitlin, who was as much a drunk and a brawler as he was. In seaside towns in Wales and the bohemian precincts of London, they made do in squalid lodgings, haphazardly raising three children, bickering violently and competing in infidelity. Lycett suggests that the main cause of Thomas' self-destructiveness was his passionate, lethal co-dependency with Caitlin...
...Nobody imagines that this one will be boring. Not with Tyson, the preternaturally furious brawler whose forward progress has been interrupted only by Buster Douglas and Evander Holyfield and the Indiana authorities who remanded him to prison for three years in the mid-?90s on a rape conviction. Nobody wants to admit that we will be watching the fight like we cannot pull ourselves away from train wrecks and car crashes - if Tyson is a man-made disaster, we want to witness the devastation. Tyson himself cannot say whether he will control himself. He predicts a K.O. within three rounds...
...everyone is buying the warlord's new clothes. Dostum rose to power as a ruthless brawler, the Mike Tyson of Afghan politics. For a decade he moved in and out of alliances with almost every major faction on the Afghan battlefield - the Taliban included. His zest for brute strategy can be traced to his love for bozkashi, the traditional sport of the northern plains. It's not a game for the faint of heart. One team of horsemen battles to haul a dead goat to one end of a field; opponents struggle to wrest it back and drag...
...takes a Republican to say no to the military. And when multiple nos and some painful amputations are the order of the day, that Republican had better have matchless hawkish credentials. And few can match either Donald Rumsfeld's hawkish stripes or his reputation as a bureaucratic brawler. Indeed, one of the more widely reprinted legends surrounding the 69-year-old Defense Secretary, who served in the same post under President Ford, alleges that Henry Kissinger once told Republican insiders that of all the despots he'd had to deal with, none was more ruthless than Donald Rumsfeld...
...half-dozen films including "Summer of Sam" and "The Cradle Will Rock," the 22-year-old actress is knocking out critics with her performance in "Girlfight," a low-budget, high-voltage drama that won prestigious awards at Sundance and Cannes. Portraying a female Rocky who evolves from high-school brawler to prize-winning boxer, Rodriguez comes across "like a young Brando," says director Karyn Kusama, who chose her out of 350 other actresses who auditioned for the part...