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Maureen Dowd (don't ask):<p> In the movie "The Untouchables," Sean Connery, a cop named Malone, instructs a naïve Eliot Ness on going up against gangsters.
"If you open the can on these worms you must be prepared to go all the way, because they're not gonna give up the fight until one of you is dead," he says. "You wanna know how you do it? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way, and that's how you get Capone. Now do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that?"
As the president offered his lofty "vision thing" for spawning democracy in the Middle East, America was at a rough juncture. The administration opened the can on these worms in Iraq. Are Americans now prepared to do what it takes?<p>***When Dowd does it, it's well past time to move on:***<p> In the movie "The Untouchables," the Sean Connery character says, "If he pulls a knife, you pull a gun. If he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way."
Well, yeah, against Al Capone, not against Tom Gamboa. It doesn't prove how bad a bad dude is, beating up a 54-year-old first-base coach. (Mike Downey, Chicago Tribune)<p> So did MacPhail actually fire himself? Uh, no. He simply booted himself upstairs and left poor Jim Hendry to tend the mess. To borrow from Sean Connery in "The Untouchables": That's the Chicago way. (Mark Bradley, Atlanta Journal-Constitution)<p> As Milloy says in the closing pages, after exhorting the reader to go forth and fight junk science, "Be prepared, Chicago-style."
"Make no mistake," Milloy said. If you criticize junksters, you open yourself to attack by them.
"If you persist and especially if you succeed, prepare yourself for savage retaliation. Remember the lines uttered by Sean Connery to Kevin Kostner as Elliot Ness in the movie The Untouchables: 'He pulls a knife on you, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way.' " (Tom Malloy, Chicago Sun-Times)<p> Additionally, Chicago presents language barriers and cuisine oddities of its own: 'Aay der, Bab. Der's dat cheez and sassage down der in da ice box.'
Not to mention the Chicago Way. What's the Chicago Way? Let me tip-toe around the question by quoting from the film, 'The Untouchables,' because I still have family in the vicinity: 'If he pulls out a knife, you pull out a gun. If he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago Way.' (Al Lewis, Denver Post)<p> In the movie version of ""The Untouchables,'' Elliot Ness is given advice about facing his adversaries.
""He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago Way.''
Chicago has always been the center of the North American railroad industry. It seems the Chicago Way has become how major railroads deal with each other since Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Canadian National announced their intention to merge. (Theodore Prince, Journal of Commerce)
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