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...ashes/I always seem to fall down." On She Loves Me Not he decides that "I'm the jerk." Subtlety is not his forte, and numbness takes over after a few lovehatetragedy tracks. It's a shame, because Shaddix has the manic energy and caterwauling voice of a lightweight metal champ, and Papa Roach is a very tight band. The music rises and crunches in that relentless "Can we top this? Yes, we can!" kind of way that makes heavy metal so much fun. Now if only the lead singer would lighten up. --By Josh Tyrangiel
...Tyson added a cryptic coda later on in some comments that were distributed to the media pack by a pool reporter. The once-upon-a-time champ and fright figure explained the mutual-politeness pact between himself and Lewis by comparing it to the pigeons he now keeps in his spare time. They would scrap ferociously until they were fed, he said. Then they became placid and still. Intentionally or not, the metaphor carried over to the ring, where the issue had been joined and resolved, and the eight-figure purses enjoyed by both fighters had surely sated their appetites...
...villain here, but he has his defenders among the fans and the journalists who are in town this week. Tony Datcher of BOSS Magazine, a publication popular in inner city Washington, D.C, tried to explain the seemingly unexplainable fondness for Tyson, especially in D.C. "He's the people's champ, who comes from the grass roots - the streets. You know? He's no worse than Elvis, who got his cousin pregnant and married her at 14. He's not perfect." That this account scrambled the histories of two local music avatars, Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis, didn't matter...
...gendarmes who suspect any Arab of being a terrorist. Desperately trying to stay neutral in an atmosphere that insists on polarization, he declares, "I'm on the side of boxing." But when he defeats the French champion the stadium erupts in a riot. As he rises to be European champ, things get hotter, especially when his brother joins the resistance and his girlfriend turns out to be an agent as well. The book culminates during the violently suppressed Paris protests...
...running backs were no problem; it just bucked up on defense and line protection. Junior wide receiver Carl Morris, the Ivy Player of the Year, caught everything that was thrown at him, and even threw a few passes himself. Pure heart pushed the Crimson over the edge against defending champ Penn, and then Harvard’s decisive 35-23 victory at the Yale Bowl gave the Crimson its first perfect season since 1913. Essentially, the best season of the modern...