But one daring and vicious creature did.

Yet the index rated oil-rich Libya, a hollowed-out shell of a state run by a murderous madman, all the way down at 111th in the year before its civil war.

I think one of his spies would - well, seem fairer and feel fouler, if you understand.

When he said that, he was as fierce as a tiger.

Accompanying China's economic reform and opening, the image of Americans held by Chinese was transforming from fierce paper tiger to exotic animal and then to fleshed-out human.