The hero, known in full as Dante Remus Lazarescu, is an unregenerate but oddly lovable mess.

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But the question hovering beneath the surface is whether America would ever be prepared to give Iraq a clean bill of weapons health so long as Mr Hussein, unrepentant, unregenerate and savage, remains in control.

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When liberals weren't denouncing him as an unregenerate racist -- the single most unfair charge unceasingly flung at Reagan -- they were saying that he didn't like gay people and did nothing about AIDS because he was happy to let gays die.

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