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...planet, was able to land a good shot to De La Hoya's cranium, but the Golden Boy wasn't hurt. Both fighters' faces looked raw, Mayweather with puffiness over his right eye, but no one really sustained serious damage. Going after Mayweather and trying to use brute force was a sound strategy because as recently as 2003, the slighter Mayweather was fighting as a lightweight at 135 pounds. De La Hoya pressed the action, throwing 587 punches to Mayweather's 481. "I felt I won the fight," De La Hoya said post-bout. "I landed the harder crisper punches...
...frustrated our demand for a motive by taking his own life: “Demand me nothing; what you know, you know; from this time forth I will never speak a word.” What we know from yesterday’s massacre is nothing, except the brute, inscrutable fact that evil exists in the world...
...whines to his therapist and "goes about in pity" for himself (the quote is from an Ojibwe proverb that Tony reads and that he believes applies only to other people), yet he longs for the days when men were strong and silent like Gary Cooper. He's a hotheaded brute who imagines himself, as he says, a cool "captain-of-industry type." He longs for the patriarchal prerogatives of bosses before him yet feels obligated to be faithful to his wife--or at least to try, kind of, once in a while...
...force people to flee without inflicting permanent injury. On Jan. 24 the U.S. military unveiled its Active Denial System, right, which shoots a beam of electromagnetic radiation calibrated to cause an intense burning sensation (similar to touching a hot lightbulb) but no long-term damage. Unlike traditional brute-force tools of dispersal--such as batons and rubber bullets, which can maim or even kill--a new wave of high-tech crowd-control devices promises to keep the peace without causing casualties...
...rioting protesters, forcing them to flee without inflicting injuries. But the U.S. military's Active Denial System - which shoots a beam of electromagnetic radiation, causing its target to experience a burning sensation - is just the latest attempt to make crowd control more effective yet less lethal. Unlike traditional brute-force methods of dispersal - such as rubber bullets and batons, which can maim or even kill - a new wave of hi-tech crowd-control gadgets promises to keep the peace without causing casualties...