Word: ruthless
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When Musharraf led his bloodless coup, he wasn't considered a ruthless strongman or an unusually cunning operator. Many hoped he would put corrupt officials on trial and restore some political freedoms. In his first two years in power, however, he fumbled that goal, allowing democracy to remain a distant, foggy ideal. Then came Sept. 11. He was asked by George Bush to help bring down the Taliban, a group nurtured by the Pakistan government and military. The decisive repositioning of Pakistan by Musharraf won him a new reputation for deft statesmanship. In the 1971 war with India, the President...
...closure raises an intriguing possibility: that the I.R.A.'s leadership devised this apology as a way of coaxing its members one step closer to permanent peace. As a British official observed, "the logic of an apology is that you won't do wrong again." Gerry Adams, a young and ruthless I.R.A. leader in Belfast when Donnelly's sister was killed, is driving the change. As the leader of Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.'s thriving political wing, he told his party last year that their electoral success meant "physical force republicanism" was unnecessary. He even said the I.R.A. would "cease...
...comix origins. "Lone Wolf and Cub," the seminal late-1960s Japanese comic series about a wandering Samurai and his child has been brilliantly transplanted by Collins to the American gangster genre. Compared to his character in the film, O'Sullivan Sr. has many more scenes of ruthless killing. He comes off as a one-man army, using a multitude of weapons to rampage through dozens of men at a time. At one point he rides down the banister of Capone's hotel firing off rounds from both hands. While it would be a stretch to see Tom Hanks' somber, journeyman...
...time is 1931. The story begins in a medium-size city near Chicago. There Michael Sullivan (Tom Hanks) works as a hit man for mob boss John Rooney (Paul Newman), who has raised him as his son--a man who bewilderingly, entrancingly combines Irish bonhomie with ruthless criminality...
...month for extra channels when they were happy with the ones they pulled in with rabbit ears. And when Malone ended up controlling more than 10 million cable subscribers and a stake in nearly every major cable network, from CNN and Discovery to QVC, he was called a ruthless gatekeeper to America's eyeballs. The resentment was not just over what Malone did, but how he did it: by being one of the corporate world's most feared negotiators. Square-shouldered at 61, Malone, who has lifted weights since high school, is physically and intellectually intimidating, with a flypaper memory...