Word: brutes
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...about that. It's about working together. It's about mental toughness and stick-to-itiveness; it's about making prudent decisions. It's the hardest work you've ever done in your life, but it's also the joy of our life. It's not about individual brute strength...
...Wars are about applying brute force to induce capitulation from rational state-actors. We’ve been using this force against plants. Plants are not rational actors,” Tree said...
...entering the race passed Saturday evening, Conan the Candidate was one of several dozen vying for that responsibility. Among the others on the ballot: socialite turned populist cable pundit Arianna Huffington, ex--baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth, pornographer Larry Flynt and porn star Mary Carey. Representing the et tu, Brute wing of Davis' party is his Lieutenant Governor, Cruz Bustamante...
...wiry, perfectionist actor who infused his ordinary, often cranky characters with bubbling intensity; of prostate cancer; in Fairfield, Conn. An amateur boxer in his native Canada, he first won acclaim for his vivid portrayals in such films as The Postman Always Rings Twice (as a Machiavellian lawyer) and Brute Force (as a sadistic prison guard). He often appeared with his wife of 52 years, Jessica Tandy, who died in 1994. Their teamwork spanned nearly half a century--in films from The Seventh Cross in 1944 (as a couple aiding an escapee from the Nazis) to the memorable skinny...
...plays Kim has made on the strategic chessboard since President George W. Bush's "axis of evil" speech. Of course, Pyongyang's approach to statecraft has always appeared a tad peculiar, its international posture unapologetically savage. But alien as this "diplomatic" framework may seem to tender Western sensibilities, the brute fact is that it has generated results for North Korea for decades...