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...most serious challenge for female fighters is to find the right organization to promote them. Fatal Femmes is a promising yet fringe production: its second event, in mid-July, was at a small casino in Compton, Calif.; the fighters, on average, made just $1,000. Most female fighters need day jobs to support themselves. Plus the UFC, which Fatal Femmes star Lisa Ward refers to as "dreamland," has no plans to add a women's division. "I don't want to see two women beatin' on each other," says UFC president Dana White. "I don't like...
...Staff writer Rebecca A. Compton can be reached at compton@fas.harvard.edu...
This set the scene for the third race of the season at Lake Carnegie, N.J., against MIT and last year’s national champions, Princeton, for the Compton Cup. The Tigers, having lost many of their best oarsmen to graduation, were not much of a match this time around, as Princeton and MIT both succumbed to another clean sweep by the Crimson’s boats. The varsity race was tight at first, with Harvard lagging behind Princeton for much of the course. But the Crimson recovered to win by almost a length...
Most critics didn't realize Williams was also fighting depression. In 2003 an alleged gang member gunned down her eldest sister Yetunde in Compton, Calif. Tennis kept her from grieving, but the layoff gave her room to cope. "Being around [Yetunde's] kids every day, it's really kind of"-- long pause--"hard," she says. "No amount of time can let you truly get over that...
...tween starlet to the role that brought Jamie Lee Curtis fame in the original. And indeed there were. "We kept getting sent these typical Hollywood hottie girls who grate on your nerves, with perfectly plucked eyebrows," says Zombie. Ultimately, he went with a normal-looking teenager named Scout Taylor-Compton, 18, who has solid indie creds, including the upcoming film An American Crime...