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This team is like a middleweight boxer who is talented and has all the hunger and desire he needs to be great but lacks a knockout punch. It wouldn't have taken much, just another score in the third quarter or an extended drive to break up the string of three-and-outs...
...cable channel CNBC, this was a very big deal. Ventura has been the target of much criticism lately for comments he made in an interview with Playboy. I picked up a copy of the magazine in order to judge his remarks for myself. It turns out that a female boxer is photographed naked in the same issue. I didn't even know there were female boxers...
...tell if one's in love, and she tells him not to worry, since most of us will never fall in love and will end up marrying out of fear of dying alone. Blistering social indictment: what looks like a press conference for a Tyson-like boxer, complete with adoring fans, members of the press and a Don King-like moderator, is really a parole hearing. Perfect ironic timing: Milhouse tells Bart he can't play with him any more because his mother thinks Bart's a bad influence, and Bart replies "Bad influence my ass! How many times have...
...explosive composition. The country's history is filled with terrible uprisings inspired by newfangled religions--among the most recent and cataclysmic, the Christian-tinged Taiping Heavenly Kingdom from 1851 to 1864 and the mystical, Kung Fu-like Boxer Rebellion at the turn of the century. Even Mao's militant idealism can be seen in this light. But China's long history is also filled with moments when faith and pragmatism merged to create miracles. What scares China's leaders is that the very first miracle of the nation's new faith may be their disappearance...
...Indeed, to the dismay of our Harvard rugby team, the Abercrombie girls were ignominiously relegated to the sidelines and depicted as screaming rugby fans, rather than players. In the boxing spread, the girls were shown having their gloves tied on for them by helpful men. Incidentally, the one female boxer who seemed to know what she was doing was a Venus Williams-esque black woman. Interesting...