Word: warriors
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...WARRIOR...
...even confront anyone, his lack of feeling for what was uppermost in voters' minds and hearts--and apply his own instincts to solve the problem. It turned out W. was quite willing to be confrontational when it came to his father's honor--and survival. "I'm a warrior for my dad," he often says. And for once, he wasn't being asked to compete with his father; he was compensating...
BUSH: Yeah, I remember some things, like anyone else. I remember. But I don't go out of my way to seek revenge. In 1992, I got some things off my chest. I was a warrior for my dad. But I'm a pretty forgiving person. To be a successful Governor, I had to have been...
...race. The battle was won, but the war against traditional privilege isn't over in Britain--not for me, not for Tony Blair and not for New Labor. This war permeates all aspects of British life. Laura Spence, who will be attending Harvard next year, became the latest class-warrior after protesting her rejection from Oxford, contending that students from state-sponsored schools are disadvantaged in the admissions process. New Labour took up her standard but was bitterly opposed by the Tory front benchers...
Over last weekend, after a Puerto Rican Day parade, roving gangs of young men ran wild in New York's Central Park, molesting and sexually assaulting dozens of women. I have had long discussions with friends about the gangs' motives. Lust? Hatred of women? Warrior machismo? Drunkenness? A dynamic form of mob stupidity? To parse the motives of the gangs assumes that they were acting on anything as coherent as Motive. Who cares? What matters is not why they did it, but that they did it. How can such a basic foundation of law be so blithely and witlessly subverted...