Word: ironized
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...season NFL career. He transformed the San Francisco 49ers from a long-suffering franchise with a 2-14 record into the winningest team of the '80s, with three Super Bowls in seven years. Before Walsh, conventional wisdom held that NFL coaches needed a loud voice and an iron fist. Walsh was just as likely to appeal to his players' intellect. With his silver hair and professorial mien, he was nicknamed "the Genius." His main invention was the West Coast offense, a now widely practiced style of play that eschewed long passes and runs up the middle in favor of short...
...Libya gains on the diplomatic and business fronts. Meantime, Gaddafi says he'll continue working on liberalizing and democratizing the dictatorship built by his father since 1969 - a notion scoffed at by human rights organizations. Responding to doubts that the regime could reform to the point of releasing its iron grip on power, the younger Gaddafi says neither his father nor the nation has much choice...
...centuries, the Boqueria has been a daily produce market, where today, still, neighborhood housewives poke at thick slabs of hake to test their freshness, and families come to choose fruit, vegetables and meats for their Sunday dinner. But in recent years, as hordes of tourists have swarmed under its iron roof each day, the Boqueria has become dotted with stands selling packaged goods (pre-cut watermelons wrapped with forks) or cooked food (pizza by the slice). To some purists, however, the replacement of a longstanding vegetable stall with Pazzta, the tile-and-chrome fresh pasta store, is a reminder...
...curriculum. B.R.N. and other insurgent groups were neutralized by government amnesties by the 1990s, but their cause has been taken up by a new breed of militant, groomed by religious leaders and hardened by the military solution Thaksin pushed in the south. (The most vivid symbol of Thaksin's iron-fisted approach was the October 2004 Tak Bai incident, when, during and after a mass protest, 85 Muslims were either shot or suffocated to death in army trucks-compounding Muslim hatred of Bangkok...
...ranking commander of the group in Iraq. When the U.S. leaves, many Iraqis say, they can deal with the terrorists and their patrons more harshly. The Anbar Salvation Council has been aggressively targeting al-Qaeda in that province, denying it safe haven in places it once controlled with an iron fist. The Administration has boasted in recent weeks that the Sunnis in Anbar are attacking elements of al-Qaeda. So why would that end if the U.S. withdrew? "If we withdraw from Iraq, a lot of the tensions we see today are going to be directed against al-Qaeda...