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Like Rockefeller 100 years ago, Gates came to the national attention with a pugnacious, imperial style that irritated government lawyers who needed no provocation to do what they were hired to do.
But after about an hour of anodyne sentiments, Rahm Emanuel, a Clinton political adviser more pugnacious than the others, couldn't take it any more.
The causes: worse traffic; pugnacious immigrant drivers; and sport-utility vehicles, which make drivers feel impervious.
Ralph Reed's retirement from the Christian Coalition has made the pugnacious Bauer the leading social-conservative activist.
He and his law partner, an equally pugnacious lawyer named Peter Neufeld, handled a case where prosecutors carelessly used DNA evidence to railroad a suspect.