Certainly the Australia camp now combines hard heads with soft touches, steel spines with flexible options, and a suitable mix of tough experience and youthful exuberance.
Obama once told me in an interview, "What I am constantly trying to do is balance a hard head with a big heart".
It had only been the usual poolside frolics when baby teeth met dad's hard head with loud and gory consequences.
Obama himself has few illusions as to the challenge he faces, telling an interviewer: "What I am constantly trying to do is balance a hard head with a big heart".
How to choose: Look for firm, even hard, heads with vivid colors.
There are two classes of head lettuce: the butter-head types with soft heads of thick, oily leaves, and crisp-head types with brittle-textured leaves that form very hard heads under proper temperature conditions.
It would be hard to go head to head with Sestak, a three-star Navy admiral with a doctorate in political economy and government from Harvard.
Reed combines a soft touch with a hard head.
"The problem is with your hard head," he declared, and threw the straw from his soft drink across the room.
The only person not taking the hint is Phil Giordano: ex-marine, self-described "Italian with a hard head," and Republican mayor of downtrodden Waterbury.
One has tramped forty miles, but at the sight below him vaults the field-gate into the corn and, with the hard heads rasping against him, bounds forward taking for once a straight line rather than roundabout, while the other man stops digging the vegetable-rows in his garden to watch this face which will keep disappearing then rising in the ocean of green becoming gold.
