Word: ruthlessness
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...like to think that decades from now I will tell my grandchildren about Warne, regaling them - perhaps even boring them - with tales of the bowler's relentless, ruthless ability. But there is part of me that wants them to be able to experience the drama and splendor for themselves. At his best Warne seemed immortal, as if he could play forever. In stopping, he becomes too much like...
...leaders—General Augusto Pinochet of Chile. Pinochet rose to power in 1973 via a violent coup d’état and his tenure would eventually witness the deaths of over 3000 of his political enemies. He overthrew a democratically elected government, only to institute a ruthless totalitarian regime bathed in blood. He was a criminal, murderer, and thief—or so the headlines ubiquitous in the mainstream media would have us believe. Pinochet, however, is a man misunderstood by many, and the distortion of facts surrounding his rise to and fall from power...
...malicious provocation. Not surprisingly, Britain is being punctilious about amassing sufficient evidence before it points a finger in any direction. But if some shadowy figures close to the Kremlin turn out to be responsible for Litvinenko's death, it would be the most astonishing indictment of just how ruthless the modern Russian state...
...Gates also could be a ruthless manager, and he admitted during the hearing that in a popularity contest, "I sure as hell wouldn't win one at CIA." Gates's vigorous rebuttal saved his nomination, although 31 Democrats voted against him on the floor - an unprecedented number for a CIA nominee. But the Gates furor soon died down, and during his three years as CIA director he was widely praised inside and out of the agency for being an effective and fair manager. "I never saw him or anyone around him trying to cook the intelligence on Iraq," says Judith...
...Pierre Gemayel was the latest victim in a ruthless series of political purges. Anonymous assassins gunned him down last Monday while he was driving his car in Beirut. Before him, Rafik al-Hariri, former prime minister and a leading Sunni figure, was assassinated in February 2005. Samir Kassir, an exceptional Lebanese journalist, was assassinated four months after the Hariri incident. George Hawi, former chief of the Lebanese Communist Party, was murdered a few weeks later. And Gebran Tueni—Nadia’s son, also a distinguished journalist and parliamentarian—was blasted into oblivion in December...