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Even the title of Cohen's book and its cover art--a brass-knuckled fist--are lifted directly from a book published eight years ago, Paul Breines' Tough Jews: Political Fantasies and the Moral Dilemma of American Jewry , which analyzes the psychological underpinnings of the cult of Jewish toughness born after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day War.
For a second straight day, Iraq anti-aircraft fire drew a tough U.S. response.
Tough talk and the rhetoric of conflict help hide the basic truth that business leaders are, in real life, more contemplative than combative, more sedentary than savage.
But mainstream cinema, which insists on heroes who are both square and hip, has a tough time exploring the paradox that virtue is a great charisma killer.
The Clinton War Room--a state of mind this year, not a place--strikes back with Hold , a tough, frontal (and potentially dangerous) response prepared by adman Bob Squier at the direction of the president's chief strategist, Dick Morris.