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...trouble with the idealized Gandhi is that he's so darned dull, little more than a dispenser of homilies and nostrums ("An eye for an eye will make the whole world go blind") with just the odd flash of wit (asked what he thought of Western civilization, he gave the celebrated reply, "I think it would be a great idea"). The real man, if it is still possible to use such a term after the generations of hagiography and reinvention, was infinitely more interesting, one of the most complex and contradictory personalities of the century. His full name, Mohandas Karamchand...
...repression of workers' protests in the 1970s and made contact with small opposition groups. Sacked from his job, he nonetheless climbed over the perimeter wall of the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk in August 1980, at age 37, to join the occupation strike. With his electrifying personality, quick wit and gift of the gab, he was soon leading it. He moved his fellow workers away from mere wage claims and toward a central, daringly political demand: free trade unions...
...jiggy wit it, to do the deed, to shop-lift the pootie, to mess around, to get a piece, to lay pipe, to get it on, to knock boots with, to snog, to go down, to shift, to shag, to shag her silly, to shag her rotten, to loc the dinky, to plow the muddy road, to donkey-punch, to get some action, to hit that shit, to get some, to bunt, to get on, to shack up, to bless, HBI, to go south, to tax that ass, to hit that, to get laid, to hump, to bang bang bang...
...totaled a cool $150 million. Not that you need to know all this trivia to know he's a success--all you need to do is turn on the radio and he'll tell you about it himself: "You name it I can claim it, / Young, black and famous, wit' money hanging out the anus...
...deeply regret that the country never got to see the JIM MCDOUGAL whom I fell in love with 20 years ago--the Jim McDougal whose intellect and dry wit led to his friendships with Bill Clinton and Senator William Fulbright; who would rant against social and racial inequality; whose greatest heroes were F.D.R. and Churchill. He taught me everything about how to be giving because he was one of the most generous men I have ever...