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...casualties among Palestinian civilians but failed to defeat Hamas or even stop the group from firing rockets into southern Israel. Nor did the assault manage to free a kidnapped Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, trapped inside Gaza for over 2 ½ years. "Nothing's changed," griped Roman Greenberg, a heavyweight boxer whose muscles bulged from within a pro-Lieberman T shirt. "And inside Israel, we had Arabs protesting against the war and waving Hamas flags. How can we accept that...
Remaining unbeaten in any sport over more than fifteen years is almost unthinkable. Yet on Feb. 5, nearly three months after beating Roy Jones Jr at Madison Square Garden to maintain his 46-0 professional record, boxer Joe Calzaghe announced his retirement. Calzaghe hangs up his gloves as the best British boxer of his generation and, arguably, the greatest British champ of all time. Calzaghe, who held the WBO, WBA, WBC and IBF super-middleweight belts during his 16-year career, said he had thought "long and hard" about retiring but insisted it was the correct decision. Trained...
...best British fighter we've ever had." - Fellow boxer Ricky Hatton, BBC Radio Wales...
...year-old!" - After beating Danish boxer Mikkel Kessler in Cardiff in a fight generally regarded as securing his place in the pantheon of great post-war fighters, The Independent, Nov. 4, 2007 Read TIME's 2-Min. Bio of Joshua DuBois: Obama's Pastor-in-Chief...
...were promising to whack out more fat when a House-Senate conference committee meets to resolve the two versions of the bill, Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski was trying to add new deductions for car buyers, and Oklahoma right winger James Inhofe was teaming up with California left winger Barbara Boxer to throw more cash at highways...