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Biden's mouth is both his greatest asset and his greatest liability. During a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last year, Biden came across as a hothead seeking hot headlines as he relentlessly badgered Secretary of State George Shultz over U.S. policy toward South Africa. The day after, he approached a friend on the Senate floor and asked sheepishly, "How much do you think I lost on that? I guess I made a fool of myself...
Lucchese. Corallo may be succeeded by Neil Migliore, 53, whom Franceschini describes as a hothead capable of starting a gang war for control. A climber in the family for a decade, he runs a marble business, including the sale of tombstones, but specializes in illegal gambling...
...civil rights. What Cuomo learned was that coming up with a simple, Solomonic solution (he proposed halving the size of the project) was a great deal easier than getting both sides to accept it. The resolution he engineered was a way station on the road to progressive pragmatism. The hothead who bruised his knuckles on a catcher's face mask was learning the art of compromise...
...years of life terribly circumscribed, with all but a few personal choices and pleasures denied. But in many other prisons, implicit in the same nominal term are five years of extortion and knives; bodies grabbed and ransacked; a sour, filthy cell shared for most of a day with a hothead who wouldn't mind killing again. The experience of a given prison is indiscriminate: the car thief endures the same, day by day, as the angel-dust wholesaler and the habitual stomper of schoolchildren...
...Academy, where he first learned the value of bold, decisive action along with the uses of power and force. After graduating in 1938, he joined a group of young officers, including Gamal Abdel Nasser, who plotted an armed revolt against the British presence. At that time, Sadat was the hothead talking of blowing up British installations; the cooler Nasser dissuaded...