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...crash to the mat of the octagonal ring, grappling, twisting like strange action figures, pressing against the cage's netting. Then they would be back on their feet, catching a breath, calculating advantage, their faces streaked with sweat and gore. Both were bleeders. Weeks before, in a qualifying bout, Forrest Griffin, 26, had suffered a gash above an eye that required so many stitches that few expected him to advance in the contest. He healed in time for this evening's punishment, and as Stephan Bonnar, 28, punched him in the head, Griffin cheekily offered a come-hither smile, turned...
...Danjel Bout, 32, a logistics captain, writes to digest what he sees, to make sense of his experiences and most of all to escape. From a group of fellow officers being fed a sheep's-head dinner to missing his wife to watching a robot disarm a roadside bomb that nearly blew him up, Bout gives vivid, sometimes lyrical, descriptions of the smells, tastes and sounds of the Baghdad he sees. The cooling summer mornings, he says, "settle around you like a light winter coat." He uploads lots of photos too. "Some soldiers immerse themselves in video games; others click...
...Buchanan Award hopeful Bennett, should be particularly stingy, but shouldn’t be relied upon to post goose eggs all year. While Lehigh appears to be the class of the league, if Lafayette can get past Colgate at home, the Leopards should be primed for a title bout against the Mountain Hawks on Nov. 19. Lafayette won’t be able to top Lehigh, but its 9-2 overall mark (5-1 Patriot) could put it in the running for an at-large...
...they believe the IRA?s gunmen have won too many concessions. Their most recent cause for anger was a British government decision to disband a mainly-Protestant militia. The upsurge of violence may also be a simple resistance to sharing power with nationalists - certainly the Orangemen who sparked this bout of rioting aren't as interested in talking to Catholics as they are in marching past their houses. And their leaders have refused to condemn the violence that followed their parade...
...turf of European soccer. It has signed up more than 40 clubs, including Manchester United and Barcelona. With its move to acquire Reebok, Adidas hopes to show that the athletic shoe is on the other foot. - By Peter Gumbel Oiling Russia's Markets Foreign and Russian traders experienced a bout of seemingly rational exuberance last week, as the long-stagnant Russian stock market started climbing steadily. The benchmark Russian Trading System (RTS) and the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX) indexes rose from 782.4 and 702.3 respectively last Monday to 803.2 and 715.4 by Friday's close. When Fitch Ratings upgraded...