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Recent Democratic leaders have been no match for these tough guys. Of course, it is harder to be a liberal bruiser. Republicans have so many more weapons available. They can appeal to the politics of hate, trumpeting white supremacy under the guise of states' rights. Reagan proclaimed this message in his 1980 campaign in the same Mississippi county where the famous civil rights workers Cheney, Schwerner and Goodman were murdered. Republicans can also scapegoat the poor. "Welfare queen" rhetoric now seems tame. Republican congressional representatives have started referring to welfare recipients as "wolves" and "crocodiles...
...favorite Ethan Philpott is taking a year off from Harvard hockey--the 6-foot-4, 230-pound bruiser is currently making up for lost time last year playing for Des Moines in the USHL. Philpott does expect to rejoin the squad next season...
...Catholic west Belfast, Adams, 45, is a hero. But outside those confines, his image is far more ambiguous. Is he an ardent civil rights protester inspired by Martin Luther King? Or is he just a third-generation nationalist bruiser following in the footsteps of a father who was jailed by the British and a grandfather who stood shoulder to shoulder with James Connolly? Is he a peacemaker who has gradually pruned away the violent rhetoric of his party to prepare the way for compromise and reconciliation? Or is he a former -- even present -- I.R.A. member who sits on the Army...
...went to high school with Gillooly. Eckardt's lawyer, Mark McKnight, said his client had admitted to authorities that he had taken part in the plot, but was "not smart enough" to have designed or carried out the plan. The police also arrested Derrick Smith, 29, another bruiser, described by neighbors as having a taste for wearing camouflage and "playing army." Both Eckardt and Smith were charged with conspiracy to commit the assault on Kerrigan. Eckardt quickly made bail and was released...
...weaved his way through a few early matches, winning them all, and found himself in the finals against John Campbell, a "real bruiser with a nasty reputation," according to Clarke...