Word: ruthlessness
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...flight back home to the U.S. in early February, Tom Hicks was passing the time with a dvd of the European Champions League football final of 2005. A ruthless trio of goals by AC Milan had looked to have killed the game before half-time, and Liverpool, Milan's opponents, were out of sorts. But the second half was a different story. The English team fought their way back into the game, and Liverpool eventually snatched Europe's top club competition in a dramatic penalty shoot-out. For Liverpool fans, celebrating their club's first European Cup for 21 years...
Sure, he’s a little too proud of himself, and he did set the toaster on fire once, but you’ve got to admire the combination of wide-eyed optimism and ruthless persistence. The 2007 Freshman Musical “Ask Me Anything,” produced by Tiffany M. Bradshaw ’10 and well directed by Heather E. Phipps ’10, was a little like the guy who eats well at Annenberg...
...improvised bombers were able to make it back to rebel territory unharmed. The Tigers sent journalists photographs of its new "air wing," including close-ups of an airplane fitted with small bombs and a group shot showing Tiger pilots surrounding a beaming Velupillai Prabhakaran, the group's charismatic but ruthless leader...
...Idol voting plays out this tension. The show is both sadistic - see the hugely popular audition rounds, in which Cowell mocks the worst singers - and sentimental. Voters have proved to be surprisingly ruthless bosses, firing the likes of cherub John Stevens, good kids who end up outmatched. But the voters are also willing to put a thumb on the scales for contestants who've paid their dues or have affecting personal stories. Ideally, Idol indulges the idea that the nicest people are the most talented, promising karmic justice in a pop world of Ashlee Simpsons and Paris Hiltons. "There...
...course, acknowledging that fact would weaken Perret’s argument that Truman is the man to blame for the creeping expansion of Oval Office authority and the ruthless exertion of American force abroad...