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...another positive development, the doubles duo of co-captains Scott Denenberg and Gideon Valkin regained the swagger it had lost earlier this season, winning all four of its matches on the road trip and holding steady in close situations...
...captain Scott Denenberg lost, 7-5, 6-1, to one of Fresno State’s trickiest players. The Crimson’s two victories in singles came on the third and fifth courts. At No. 3, junior Ashwin Kumar, whose swagger has returned after a difficult early-season slump, overcame some adversity to take the first set in a tiebreak and held his composure in the second set, breaking his opponent at 5-5 and winning 7-5. “Ashwin was playing beautifully,” Fish said. “He showed really good resilience against...
...opposition is just one person: the Erin Brockovich of decommed soldiers, a Rambo with a higher IQ - Bob Lee Swagger! With a surname redolent of American machismo, and Christian names that suggest both Good Ol' Boy and President Assassination Suspect, Swagger is your standard-issue outlaw hero. He loves his pet pooch, has little use for humans. On being offered the assignment to prevent an assassination, he spits out his apolitical nihilism: "I don't much like this President. Didn't like the last one much either." (As a non-voter for either Bush or Clinton, he's in sync...
...Toward the end, Swagger gets a civics lesson from a venal Montana Senator (Ned Beatty): "There's always a confused soul who thinks that one man can make a difference.... That's the problem with democracy." Actually, no. The problem with democracy is thinking that all men can make a difference. One man: that's despotism, or comic-book wish-fulfillment. Or the premise of nearly every Hollywood movie, which says that the system is corrupt, and the little guy can beat it. (Until the next movie, where the system is corrupt...
...With the entire U.S. police force, half the military, and seemingly most of the employees of Blackwater USA trying to kill him, will Bob Lee survive? We'd never tell, but a quick check of amazon.com will show that Hunter has already published two Swagger sequels. There are other conspiracies to uncover, or invent, other countries in need of a superhero. Readers and moviegoers need him too, as an imaginary solution to monstrously real problems. It's too bad that Swagger is a fiction, and that the notion of one man who can right wrongs is less plausible than...