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To the Harvard hockey faithful, Melrose will be mythologized as the bruising enforcer whose monster checks and willing fists intimidated opponents and protected teammates. To fans at road rinks, he will be remembered as a goon.
In the packed vegetable market, hurried transactions are interrupted by rumors of arrests and raids. By 11 a.m., the shops are shuttered and the shabab take over, attacking and evading soldiers. Five toughs from a Palestinian gang called the Black Panthers swagger down the street only two blocks from an...
During the 18 months that he labored in his father's campaign headquarters, acting as the family enforcer among the hired handlers, Bush was often a bristly presence. "Junior," as Washington insiders called him, was out of his element back East, uncomfortable in his father's shadow once again. Of...
While never deviating from basic Bush policy in public, Quayle places himself a few degrees to the President's right, acting the conservative enforcer. It was Quayle who talked about the Soviets' "hatred of God." While in Central America, he inveighed against the "axis" of dictatorships in Panama, Nicaragua and...
In Sergei Kaledin's A Humble Cemetery, the pressures on the hulking workman Sparrow (Mikhail Zhigalov) include a legacy of family violence, a stretch in a work camp, virtual gangsterism in the cemetery where he works as a gravedigger, and a dangerous weakness for vodka. There are performances of enchanting...