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Seasoned criminals love to exploit such youthful intensity, and Harry is soon adopted by Abie "The Bug" (Peter Appel) and then by his boss, Varga (Jerry Adler), Jewish gangsters in search of a more dependable bully boy than the chaotic Arnie.
The conventional wisdom, distilled last week by the Los Angeles Times , is that Saddam is shrewdly provoking the allies and that they're taking the bait, engaging in a "war of attrition" that will "keep world attention focused" on Iraq and leave the United States "looking like a bully."
I think what I like best about that is not the attention the writers pay to the details of Italian-American sociology, not the witty bullshitting sessions among the members of the crew, and not the way the plot lines mess with genre expectations, so that the worst thing that can happen to Anthony Soprano Jr. is not that he gets beaten up by a school bully but that he doesn't get beaten up, because that means he learns that his classmates' parents are afraid of his father.
Presidents derived their license to serve as leader-preacher from Theodore Roosevelt's remark that the presidency was "a bully pulpit," a remark that did not appear in his Inaugural Address.
China has no worldwide ambitions, is not a regional bully, trails the United States by decades militarily, and isn't so terrible on human rights.