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...placed on probation after requiring a Jewish pledge to dress in a Nazi uniform and parade through the campus cafeteria. Jewish women are derided as "Jewish-American princesses." At Cornell and elsewhere, students wear T shirts reading SLAP-A-JAP! and BACK OFF BITCH, I'M A JAP-BUSTER! "Anti-Semitism masked as sexism is more socially acceptable," says Rabbi Laura Geller, director of the Hillel Jewish Center at the University of Southern California, "because, unfortunately, sexism is still an accepted form of bigotry...
That's the way it went, as the lightly regarded James ("Buster") Douglas, 29, knocked out Mike Tyson, 23, in Tokyo last week, ending the champ's four- year reign. The papers called it "the biggest upset in boxing history," but they could just as easily have said cinema history: a story like this happens only in the movies. To be exact, it happens only in Rocky movies. Douglas' shocking victory over the previously undefeated annihilator provided all the improbable thrills of a Stallone fist film. And more. Rocky never got the benefit of a long count, so that...
...want them to stick me with Rocky," Douglas told David Letterman. Still, this mild man from Columbus is stuck with a hero's biography. His father Bill was a sparky middleweight who funneled his dreams into young Buster. Another inspirer, Buster's manager John Johnson, helped steer his fighter through recent family tragedies -- especially the death of his mother Lula last month -- and toward a bout with Tyson. Boxing savants expected it to be one more anonymous sacrifice to the Kong of sport. But Douglas had strength, stamina and grace. And he lacked what other Tyson victims have brought into...
...waning seconds of the eighth round, a Tyson uppercut with a lot of steam on it rang Buster's bell just before the timekeeper could ring his. Douglas collapsed and skidded on the canvas. Referee Octavio Meyran Sanchez glared Tyson into a far corner and began his count, so that Douglas had a few extra seconds to rise to his feet. He was still genuflecting at the count of nine, but he seemed ready to continue...
...klieg lights trained on it. For the future, aficionados should keep an eye on Douglas, the new champion on the bloc. Just because a new face has replaced the old and interminable domination has ended doesn't mean we should hail the arrival of a boxing Era of Equity. Buster Douglas is champ, but the world is not necessarily a better place for his victory. Lots of things could happen from here, and many of them are rather forbidding prospects...