Word: boxer
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...time sushi eater? In crucial California, at least, the reason was a climactic revolt against politics as usual that rewarded not Clinton so much as outsider Ross Perot and, to a historic extent, a surging team of women candidates led by Democratic U.S. Senate nominees Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer...
...gender victories raised the unprecedented prospect of two women Senators elected from California next fall. Moderate Democrat Feinstein, a former mayor of San Francisco, roundly defeated state controller Gray Davis 58% to 33% and will face appointed incumbent John Seymour, a moderate Republican, in November. Liberal Democratic Congresswoman Boxer, with 44%, overcame both Lieutenant Governor Leo McCarthy and Congressman Mel Levine and will take on conservative Republican Bruce Herschensohn for the Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Alan Cranston...
...paraphrase the immortal words of boxer Jake LaMotta, Harvard athletics in 1991-2 couldah been contendah...
...rush that is the movie's smashing climax -- they must endure a long, penniless passage in the Boston slums, where they live as brother and sister in a rented whorehouse room. They're the only residents unable to assuage their sexual itch, and, madly sublimating, Joseph becomes a bareknuckle boxer in a sporting club. It is here, at its center, that Far and Away takes its biggest chances, for this section is dark and claustrophobic and concludes melodramatically with Shannon near death and Joseph carrying her through a blizzard seeking help...
Tyson earned $60 million in his six years as a professional boxer -- including $20 million in 1988 for his 91-sec. title fight against Michael Spinks -- but had only as little as $5 million by last year. Last week he was forced to borrow against his own $2 million retirement account to help pay off the $2 million in legal expenses incurred during his rape trial last February, including a six-figure sum for celebrity attorney Alan Dershowitz to conduct his appeal. Former Tyson accountant Mohammed Khan reportedly claims that the boxer has "no liquid assets," only real estate...