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...MILOSEVIC AS HITLER Well, not exactly. Milosevic is the most dangerous European leader of the 1990s. He is a menace, a thug, a postcommunist villain who has cynically manipulated nationalism. He has blood on his hands. But his state does not have either the power or the ideological will to conquer Europe. While Germany under Hitler grew ever bigger, Yugoslavia under Milosevic has shrunk. The element of truth in this analogy is President Clinton's point about appeasement: the longer you put off standing up to aggressive dictators, the higher the price. If we had called Hitler's bluff when...
...second match was the more exciting due to the late rally made possible by the new "two-thug" offense Wilson had his team execute. In this system, an extra passer positioned on the inside allowed Harvard to use its outside hitters more...
...implemented the new "thug" offense the team has been executing in practice. The Crimson usually plays a two-passer system that splits the court in half. The thug offense puts Harvard's best passer in the middle of the court for five of the six rotations, so he can utilize all of the hitters--especially their outsides...
...article is correct in hinting that there was something special about Oakley's work ethic. But Greene reveals his ignorance by repeatedly calling the hard-working power forward a thug. Granted, Oak was a bruiser and did play a physical game, but he was anything but a cheap shot artist...
Cahill (Brendan Gleeson) was, in fact, Dublin's master thug in the 1980s, leader of a gang that pulled off a string of gaudy robberies, and also a great local celebrity. Constantly tailed by the police, he went boldly about the city but always with his face hidden, if only by his own hands. Mocking authority in this way, he enhanced his mystery, hence his power...