Preservation fights can be notably fierce.
Sometimes putting on big fights can be pure aggravation.
Tough nominating fights can be debilitating for parties.
Fights can be stopped if a boxer cannot continue, has been knocked out or disqualified.
The recent proxy contest over EQT Corporation's strategic merger with Rice Energy demonstrates that these fights can be fought and won.
The battlelines need to be redrawn so that futile skirmishes can be avoided and the real fights can be fought.
The raw brutality is an essential part of the event, but although the fights can be wild, it is all handshakes and backslaps at final whistle.
LIBERAL-LIBERTARIAN cage fights can be fun, but Sean Wilentz's scattershot attack on Glenn Greenwald, Edward Snowden and Julian Assange in this month's New Republic is pretty thin stuff.
Childhood humiliations, rejections, disappointment, bullying by peers, insensitive actions by authority figures and parental fights can be so disturbing that they disrupt the brain's information processing system.
For out-and-out body-maiming violence, nothing approaches football, of course, or boxing, but hockey fights can be difficult to watch.
