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A profile portrays George W. Bush as a man driven by the desire to avenge his father and to best the intellectual elite who bugged him in college.
Perhaps it also reflects an attempt to avenge Reagan's rout of the intellectual class.
Are they seeking to avenge Mobutu's long support of rebellions in their countries?
For graphic scenes of Horus’ fight with his evil uncle Seth to avenge his father Osiris, walk around the exterior of the temple to the west side, where the whole event is re-created.
The impulse to avenge is human, and the opportunities for it are abundant at the end of a war, when law and authority evaporate.