Word: boxer
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...first-degree-murder conviction of Black Panther Activist Frank ("Parky") Grace; a co-defendant and a witness had changed their testimony, but Grace's lawyers won because they also provided a wealth of new corroborating evidence. In a celebrated New Jersey murder case, a witness against former Middleweight Boxer Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter announced that he had lied at the original 1967 trial. Yet when the state's supreme court reversed the Carter conviction in 1976, it stated that it was not considering the recantation. (At the retrial, the witness changed his story back again, and Carter was reconvicted...
...would like to devour someone else before the year is over, for another $5 million to $8 million or much less. An opponent is the problem. "Let's do it again," Hearns offered vaguely, meaning in the distant future. The Detroiter needs some time to recall he is a boxer, and the conqueror must be allowed some time to grow old. "I'm at the top of my game, and I don't see any other fighter out there," said Hagler, Marvelous no longer just by court decree. "I don't see another one. I'm 'boxing' right...
...grants. Minnesota's Rudy Perpich said his package of inducements was worth $1.3 billion to the company. To remind GM's executives of its lures, Missouri erected a billboard in downtown Detroit that read GIVE US A RING. Another sign said CHICAGO WANTS YOU. Celebrities were enlisted as well. Boxer Ray ("Boom Boom") Mancini touted Youngstown, Ohio, and Golfing Great Arnold Palmer praised Westmoreland County, Penn...
...Ambassador, John Bolton, whose confirmation hearings begin this week. "We might filibuster him," Reid told TIME. And he added another name to the list of those who might be talked to death: Stephen Johnson, whose nomination to head the Environmental Protection Agency has drawn fire from California Senator Barbara Boxer over a pesticide-testing program involving children...
...Beijing and the Holy See were close to a deal in 2000, but it was derailed by the sanctioned church, which deliberately offended Rome by elevating four bishops without first informing the Vatican. The Vatican retaliated by canonizing Christians killed during the Boxer Rebellion at the turn of the 20th century. The Pope later mended fences by apologizing for the Church's mistakes in China over the past four centuries, and last week, Beijing's Foreign Ministry expressed "sadness" at his passing. But the two sides haven't gone back to the negotiating table. "The Chinese side," says Joseph...