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...arriving in Calais in early August. "I am very afraid that the French police will send me back," he said, adding, "I am less afraid of the French police than the Taliban." Dressed in a light raincoat, Jabar was among those who were arrested on Tuesday morning. (Read "Afghan Boxer Wins French Citizenship...
Katz and the show's executive producer, Conrad Green, had discussed casting a politician for a long time. Programs like theirs thrive on confounding people's expectations. One of DWTS's key early successes, says Green, was snagging boxer Evander Holyfield. People tuned in because they couldn't believe a onetime heavyweight champ would be hoofing it on TV. To keep its audience growing, the show - which, according to Nielsen, averaged 20 million viewers last season - has to find contestants who will bring in new fan bases, beyond its usual rotation of sports figures, minor Hollywood celebs and reality stars...
...own.Gardener baits the reader with a formula that would ordinarily indicate a redemption story: Tully, a fighter who retired when a change in luck robbed him of his wife and his will, finds his taste for the sport revived—if briefly—after sparring with recreational boxer Ernie Munger, only a teenager when Tully encourages him to turn pro. The classic boxing arc would pit these two against one another in the final act—vitality supplanting experience, in expectedly American fashion—but as Munger emerges as the novel’s other main...
...with Kerry before this year. So he was surprised when Kerry approached him in the Senate about a month ago. "He came over to me, and he said he'd like to see if we could find some middle ground on global warming," Graham recalls. With California Senator Barbara Boxer, Kerry has been gathering Senators from both sides of the aisle for weekly meetings on climate-change legislation. The bill was thought to be a nonstarter in the Senate; Kerry is now confident he can produce a bipartisan agreement by late September. "I think he's got a very practical...
Biggs and 14 other men robbed a Royal Mail train of 2.6 million pounds (about $67 million in today's terms). The gang, which included an antiques dealer, a boxer and a florist, beat the train's driver unconscious with an iron bar; the victim never worked again and died seven years later. Biggs was sentenced to 30 years in prison for his part in the incident, but he escaped after 15 months by scaling a 30-ft. (9 m) wall and jumping into a furniture van. After more than 35 years on the run in Australia and Brazil, Biggs...