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...course there was Breland, who went into the tournament with the biggest reputation (a record five New York Golden Gloves titles, a major role in the 1983 film The Lords of Discipline). A lanky, 6-ft. 3-in. 147-pounder from Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto, Breland is blessed with an exceptionally long reach and a strong right hand. But he was lackadaisical and distracted in his opening fight against a brawling Canadian, and suffered the ignominy of a standing eight count before winning the decision. Breland flashed his old form hi stopping Mexico's Genaro Leon...
...wonder who has yet to battle the scale. "I can have ten pancakes at a time," he says. "Then I walk about ten blocks and have to stop some place to eat." A roofer's son, one of six children who grew up in Brooklyn's grim Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto, Breland never found boxing particularly fearsome. "I like pain," he says breezily. "Before a fight, I am so hyped up I just want to bust. Everything boils...
When Brian Lawler became mayor of New Bedford, Mass. (pop. 97,250), in 1983, he knew he would be in charge of schools, parks and garbage pickup, but he never thought about running a factory. Until now. Lawler announced last week that the city stood ready to make unprecedented use of its power of eminent domain to take over Morse Cutting Tools, a 120-year-old New Bedford manufacturer that employs about 450 workers. Gulf & Western Industries, the New York-based conglomerate that owns Morse Cutting Tools, has been shedding divisions and has set a tentative July 31 deadline...
Eminent domain, a legal right of governments that originated in the Middle Ages, has traditionally been used to take over land for public works like highways. New Bedford obtained a 45-page legal opinion that says a city can also use eminent domain to assume ownership of the buildings and equipment of a private company "for the purpose of maintaining a healthy economy." New Bedford would have to pay Gulf & Western a fair price for Morse, estimated to be $10 million to $20 million...
This disbelief is even built into our judicial process. Recently, television viewers across the nation were given the opportunity to witness the ludicrous level of skepticism which greets a plaintiff in a rape case. The victim of the New Bedford gang rape had her "character" placed under glass and combed backwards and forwards day after day after day: meanwhile, no one, except a few lone voices, had the acuity to openly question the relevance of the woman's previous behavior to what transpired on the night of the attack. What does it matter what kind of person she was before...