Word: boxers
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...inquiry languished. But now, with the 1996 election looming (and California's 54 electoral votes vital to Bill Clinton's prospects), the USDA has again promised a new rule. "Within a week," says a usda spokesman. "Maybe in two months," Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman told Senator Barbara Boxer last week...
Senator Barbara Boxer said she'd force a vote to order public hearings on chargesSenator Bob Packwoodhas sexually harassed numerous women since 1969. Boxer, a feisty California Democrat, took to the Senate floor asserting, "We irrevocably lose the people's respect by sweeping our problems under the committee room rug." But Ethics Committee Chairman Mitch McConnell, who could but hasn't ordered such hearings, shot back "Perhaps everyone needs a cooling-off period." Other Republicans threatened to pursue harassment charges against Democratic SenatorsEdward Kennedyand Tom Daschle unless Boxer relents. Republicans say Boxer has been hypocritical on the hearings issue...
DIED. JIMMY GARCIA, 23, Colombian super featherweight boxer; two weeks after collapsing in the wake of an appallingly brutal title fight with Gabriel Ruelas; in Las Vegas...
What Tyson fails to do is offer us any insight into the boxer's complicated psychology. Tyson's rape of a 19- year-old beauty contestant, the crime for which he has just finished serving three years in prison, is dramatized only briefly at the end of the film. During the course of the story, though, he is depicted as a belligerent suitor who chases young women down dark streets and yet, incongruously, is so shy that he hangs up the phone the first time he calls Robin Givens (Kristen Wilson), his future wife...
...premiere guide to the nation's professional playing fields. Though he entered sportscasting in 1953 through the unglamorous venue of Little League baseball, by the '60s Cosell was a fixture at abc Sports, gaining a measure of attention because of his controversial support for Muhammad Ali when the boxer was stripped of his title for resisting the Vietnam draft. Cosell reached the peak of his influence with the Monday Night Football broadcasts of the '70s; his self-promoted willingness to "tell it like it is" brought a refreshing skepticism to the traditionally bland idolatry of "color" commentary. Ultimately, however, Cosell...