In an audacious caper that matched cunning thieves against apparently complacent security guards, intruders broke into Vienna's art history museum before dawn on Sunday, stealing a 16th-century gold-plated sculpture by the Florentine master Benvenuto Cellini.
Cunning and rebellious against authority, Karagiozi was often shown as a liar and petty thief who wormed his way out of difficult situations.
It was about a "cunning and indefatigable conspirator against the rights & independence of the individual.
Someone had to stand against such cunning in the name of "truth and fairness," said his papers, someone like himself.
But he left with the Yankees trailing by only a run, at 3-2, helping them stay close against the cunning left-hander Ricky Romero.
Now we're asked to believe that high school dropouts are our best front line of defense against the cunning likes of Mohamed Atta, the recipient of two university degrees.
Moreover, despite the fundamental simplicity of the cat's nature, it remains true that the cat is cunning: he plots tirelessly against the mouse, and his ludicrous wiles require in the mouse an alert attention that he would prefer not to give.
Celtic took a gamble it surely now regrets in thinking that its Nigerian defender, Efe Ambrose, could step out of Africa, where on Sunday night he celebrated the achievement of his life by helping Nigeria win the Cup of Nations; take a 10-hour flight to arrive in Glasgow in the early hours of Tuesday; and then play 90 minutes against the cunning of the top Italian league strikers.
A hotshot prosecutor squares off against a cunning engineer who tried to murder his wife and is now defending himself in court.
This is why the cancer community is willing, it is able, and it is more than ready to run this last mile in mankind's long journey against a cunning killer.
