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Well, there you have it, characterization of a cross-country coach who has spent a quarter of his life leading the Crimson harriers but who comes out looking like a cross between Napoleon and Rodney Dangerfield...
...seems amaz ing about this hardy era was the immense national feeling of self-confidence-the feeling, summed up in the phrase still imprinted on the back of every dollar bill, that America was a "new order of the ages." Toward the impressive contemporary Europe of Beethoven, Hegel, Napoleon and Goethe, the rude frontiersman was patronizing: his own land was the democratic future, free of the Old World's privileges and wars. "Every stroke of the ax and hoe," Henry Adams wrote sardonically, "made him a capitalist and made gentlemen of his children...
...Four ministers did manage some remarkably durable diplomatic achievements. During months of intricate maneuvering, in an atmosphere marred by constant intrigue and espionage, they redrew the map of Europe, rewarding the states that defeated Napoleon with new territories and restoring ruling families, like the Bourbons, to thrones from which they had been ousted by the French Revolution and Bonaparte's conquests. The Final Act, signed in an unostentatious ceremony on June 9, 1815, created what Castlereagh called "a great machine of European safety" that was to endure, more or less intact, for 40 years. It was a supremely conservative...
...party leader) of the Christian Democrats, including a stint for the past two years. Last week his leadership of the Christian Democrats, Italy's largest party, ended abruptly. At an emergency national council of the party, Fanfani, whose conglomeration of nicknames Includes "the Tuscan Pony," "the Pint-Sized Napoleon," "Little Caesar" and "il Padrino " (the godfather) was booted out on a vote of no confidence...
...years, and one of the most popular front-office men in baseball; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Raised in New York's tough Hell's Kitchen, Brannick dropped out of school at age 13 to become a bat boy for the Giants' legendary manager, John ("Little Napoleon") McGraw. From the era of Christy Mathewson to that of Willie Mays, Brannick served as the Giants' traveling secretary, winning friends and influencing sportswriters...