Word: brotherism
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PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, when asked by a reporter in Ohio about his feelings that "everybody and their brother does a poll...
...stares and nudges. I've even developed a couple of airy responses to the inevitable comments that arise from co-workers and friends along the lines of "Um, your husband is so hot..." Sometimes I go with "Oh, that's not my husband--that's my twin brother," and other times a dismissive "Yeah, but back in Australia I'm considered a great beauty. It's Nicole Kidman who's the hag." Each time, it hurts just a little less...
...match offers a compelling contrast in both personality and fighting styles, plus a healthy dose of family psychodrama. Mayweather grew up fighting in Grand Rapids, Mich., where his father, Floyd Sr., taught him how to punch in his stroller. When Floyd was a year old, his mother's brother pulled a gun on his dad. "I told him, 'If you're going to kill me, you're going to kill him too,'" says Mayweather Sr., who was holding his son. "'That's all I got in the world.'" Honoring Mayweather family values, the uncle then shot Floyd...
...Floyd Sr. returned to training his son after serving 5 1/2 years in prison for trafficking in cocaine. But young Mayweather, who turned pro after winning a bronze medal at the 1996 Olympics, soon found his father overbearing and evicted him from his house. Uncle Roger, Floyd Sr.'s brother, took over as trainer. Floyd Sr. found a new client: Oscar De La Hoya...
...dysfunction, even though he imported some of it for a while. Floyd Sr., torn about training De La Hoya to bludgeon his son and unhappy with his salary, split with De La Hoya in January. He is now back advising Junior, to the dismay of head trainer Roger, his brother, who, incidentally, just finished a six-month jail stretch for battery. The brothers aren't speaking. "Why would I have to be concerned about my brother's thoughts or feelings?" asks Roger during a Mayweather workout in Las Vegas. He is wearing a T shirt with Sesame Street characters, except...