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Besides, he said, haven’t Democrats and Republicans both said a secure border and tougher enforcement is needed before comprehensively overhauling the nation’s fouled-up immigration system?

“One of those old-type natural fouled-up guys,” is how he sees Jake seeing him.

Military Academy and other military academies and war colleges are closely studying the unbelievably fouled-up Russian invasion of Ukraine and incorporating their findings regarding these blunders in their studies on military tactics.

The last time that the Red Sox and the Yankees met for an October playoff series, in 2004, the Red Sox were a tortured outfit, the fouled-up team that not only hadn’t won a World Series since 1918 but that lost in such tragic yet inventive ways that it seemed like they were putting on a Chekhov play staged in baseball costume.

He was, to quote Philip Larkin’s summary of an imaginary biographer’s assessment of him, “one of those old-type natural fouled-up guys,” and one who could find endless and various beauty in a messed-up world.