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...wasn't so very long ago that the name Donald Rumsfeld sent shivers down the spines of Washington's most battle-hardened bureaucratic warriors. In the 1970s, when Rumsfeld was chief of staff and later Secretary of Defense under President Gerald R. Ford, he was a fearless backroom operator. Henry Kissinger once admitted that Rumsfeld was the only person ever to get the best of him in a political fight. Rumsfeld's inside moves during the Ford years were so clever and complex that he developed a cult following among conservatives. He was the man who would stop at almost...
...muskie is the Boo Radley of American game fish, an elusive hulk in the shadows - a beautiful, green, striped but spooky fellow, big, fun to catch, and hard to find. Elephant Lake muskie, according to one fishing writer, are "aggressive and fearless." Trolling there is a Catch-22: 1) The muskie keeps mostly to the weeds; therefore 2) you must fish in the weeds to catch him, but 3) as soon as you enter the weeds, your hooks gather a harvest of vegetables; your lure stops dancing, stops appealing to a muskie as an item to gobble, and resembles, instead...
...trained him in the handling of divergent personalities and the management of sometimes discordant deputies. "Running a government and running an economy are very similar to running a corporation. And in the new economic order, global free trade is just like mergers and acquisitions. You have to be fearless. And I am fearless in business. When I went to Las Vegas, I only bought $5,000 in chips. But when I'm making a deal, I'll play with $50 million...
...Three U.S. soldiers came upon the village on an exploratory foray and raped a local girl. They returned again and again to rape her and others, growing so fearless they sometimes appeared without weapons. The villagers finally had enough. One day, all the men and a few straggling Japanese soldiers ambushed the three Americans and stoned them to death...
...highest level of testosterone in any animal, including lions and elephants. Its lower spiked teeth are designed to hold prey while the upper triangular serrated teeth gouge out flesh. "The bull is an ambush type of predator, it makes this big mortal wound," says Hueter. It is fearless, taking on prey as large...