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...Wallace was about a lot more than racism. He was about the inanities of Washington, the "pointy-headed intellectuals who can't park their bicycles straight." He was a little guy too, with the same chestiness, the same rolled-up sleeves as Dean. He was congenitally pugnacious, a former boxer (Dean was a wrestler). He claimed to provide a voice for the voiceless--albeit a set of alienated Americans very different from Dean's affluent Net surfers. Wallace voters were, well, white guys with Confederate flags on their pickup trucks. And he was a formidable national candidate...
...some point that involves moving to Washington, D.C., sitting in a room all day with a moron like Barbara Boxer. I'm just not interested. I like open minds, and I think in Washington right now, we might as well start painting those people red and blue...
...They can’t break me ‘cause they didn’t make me,” he said, quoting boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter...
Before lecture began, a handful of boys undressed down to their boxer briefs on stage, to the hollers and hoots of a Sanders Theatre audience...
Captain Dante G. Balestracci ’04 sits at his locker, one hand tightly wrapping tape around his muscular fingers on the other hand. Over and over again, like a boxer preparing to slip his gloves on for a prizefight, his hands mindlessly tape themselves as he mentally scans back through game footage and the task that lies ahead...