Word: sucker
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Mafiosi, of course, do not punctuate their conversation with "Allah is great!" and "Praise Allah!" The bin Laden home movie mixes ejaculations of piety with postgame Islamic towel snapping and a chillingly cynical amusement at the sucker martyrs. Combine the piety and the thug's mirth, and you get something of that lounging insolence with which Satan, at the opening of the Book of Job, answers God's "Whence comest thou?" with: "From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it." A sneering theological swagger. Evil usually feels comfortable with itself...
...higher way, what they are after is a doggy treat--some essential social or intellectual goal. What they have all realized is that to reach it, sometimes you need to find a subtle and ingenious way to get into the bottle. And sometimes you just have to grab that sucker and bust it wide open...
...this." He called Richard Scruggs, the Pascagoula, Miss., trial lawyer whose efforts forced big tobacco into a $246 billion settlement in 1998 and who is working with Cunningham in a crusade against managed-care companies. Though Scruggs styles himself an advocate for the little guy, he is also a sucker for big, gnarly cases, and to everyone's surprise, he agreed to help Medica find a way to compensate its victims without going bankrupt...
...have been an encouraging consumer prop since January, and Greenspan first used the S-word about the economy in July. And look where that's gotten us. No, anyone with at least an arm's-length worth of objective distance from this market had to figure this was another "sucker's rally," a wild and temporary burst of optimism from traders and investors who closed their eyes, crossed their fingers and bought on Friday because, well, it's August and the boss was already in the Hamptons anyway...
...things cross a certain line - when protests get violent - the protesters lose their legitimacy. With that, cops and soldiers have the excuse they need. The tables are turned and the dissidents' legitimacy may migrate over to the authorities. Violent protest that makes the cops look like victims is a sucker's game; the demonstrators might as well be on the payroll of the status quo. For in such circumstances, the general public - the sacred "People" in whose name the protesters claim to act - tends to support the cops. I remember standing on Michigan Avenue, outside the Hilton, that night...