Like his idol Donovan, Casey raided the corporate world, Wall Street, academia and so forth for the kind of people he needed -- people who thought fast, could spot a pattern with the fewest possible facts, get their point across to everyone else and hit the enemy hard.

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Be sure to assemble it out of the right metaphors, the kind that call forth accepted truths and grind them against contradictory beliefs.

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This is the kind of back and forth that happens when people apply for 501(c)(4) status.

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Now, the viewers aren't concerned with this kind of back-and- forth.

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Again, nobody knows that, but assuming that's the case, you have a fairly conservative justice, and assuming the president puts forth a fairly conservative nominee, you know, it's just kind of trading a conservative for a conservative.

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He added that he hoped the two sides "don't get involved in some kind of typical Washington back-and-forth sideshow here and rather just ... roll up their sleeves and get to work" on writing a comprehensive immigration bill.

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Loach is trying for his own kind of scrappy truthfulness, in which pent-up physical violence bursts forth clumsily, without the usual stylized glamour of classic movie mayhem.

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