Attempts to resolve the Quandary:
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Khan was a cruel warlord whose hallmark was to wrest power by coercing other leaders’ running dogs into giving him information about his enemies’ weaknesses, and then taking sadistic pleasure in immolating the snitches after he had overthrown their masters.
(by wordgirl)3
Albert Wentworth Leighton Ford, mid-level manager, working in the bowls of a towering glass and concrete edifice, hours from his small, lonely home, and running dog of every upward bound wunderkind, bore his BlackBerry as a hallmark of his mediocrity; but nightly he would wrest that sad mantle from his psyche, and in his dreams, ruler of an immolated world, would stand upon the molten glass and slag of his domain, the crushed bones of his foes below him-he was not a pleasant lunch-mate.
(by fdrisc)
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Total obedience—a willingness to perform self-immolation on command—is the hallmark of a running dog: his freedom need not be wrested from him, as he eagerly surrenders it to the master he chases.
(by Rudi)