Word: bernard
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...couple of weeks after Sept. 11, middleweight Bernard Hopkins provided a New York crowd with a stunning 12th round knockout of highly regarded Felix Trinidad to become undisputed champion. After the victory, Hopkins, who had grown up poor and spent time in prison, played on American emotions but still sounded sincere: “I am the American Dream!” he proclaimed. He was being humorous, ever the showman, but there was an element of truth to his words. He had struggled through a great deal, waited a long time for his second chance and finally made good...
...height of McCarthyism, Stare won notoriety for hiring Bernard Lown, a cardiologist who had been accused of holding communist sympathies. Lown went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 as one of the leaders of a group opposing the proliferation of nuclear weapons...
According to students present in yesterday’s class, Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson accompanied Scholl into Professor Bernard E. Harcourt’s criminal law class and requested that Scholl have five minutes to apologize to his classmates...
...University’s Catholic leaders say they have not focused on the effects of the scandal and the questions of priestly celibacy or the possible resignation of Cardinal Bernard F. Law ’53 because students have expressed little need for a discussion...
...course, Lebanon's old problems have not been completely exorcised. Just ask Bernard Khoury, the architect who designed B-018. Having spent his teenage years dodging bullets on the Green Line, he constructed the club in the form of an underground shelter. The bizarre interior--a slit in a wall recalls a sniper's nest, and tables are set with memorial photos of yesteryear's entertainers--echoes war and death. "Some people want a postcard version of our history, with no reference to the war," he says. "I don't agree. Amnesia can be dangerous...