Word: featherweight
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...SHOES English shoemaker Barker Black is trotting Stateside. Its premiere is an ode to old British lancers, bearing the regiment's skull-and-crossbones logo. Bottega Veneta uses leather as canvas this season, perforating cotton-lined featherweight capretto lace-ups. Inspired by Andy Warhol's loafers, Paris bootmaker Berluti has patched and darned its new line...
...hitter swung and missed, Pete would stick the ball up in their face and say, 'Hey, batter, batter, batter.' " Pete was a banker's son, though his father was more famous for playing halfback with the semipro Cincinnati Bengals at the age of 42 and sparring with World Featherweight Champion Freddie Miller. "In high school," says Brinkman, "Pete was still pretty small, a 5-ft. 8-in., 150-lb. football player. That's why not too many baseball scouts were interested in him. But Pete just decided he was going to make himself into a great player and did." Somehow...
...college to stretch her mind--she didn't expect it also to expand her waistline. "At home my mom made choices on what I could eat," she explains, "but it was all-you-can-eat at the dining halls." Ashil got to school a year ago as a featherweight size 1. She now fits "snugly" into a size 3, she says. Say hello to the "freshman 15": the unwanted pounds many students pack on during their first year of college. The extra pounds--usually the result of junk-food vending machines, binge drinking, buffet-style dining and the loss...
...BOXING Featherweight boxer Somluck Khamsing became a national hero after winning Thailand's first-ever gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Games. As a reward, his adoring country even paid him a $1.6 million bonus. But Somluck's mercurial training habits caught up with him, and he was easily defeated in the Sydney quarterfinals. The former champ has made ends meet in recent years by hosting a TV game show, opening a BBQ restaurant and recording a hit album with two fellow fighters called Three Boxers Become Singers. Now, however, the 31-year-old is making his comeback after...
...brilliant as Pacquiao's win over Barrera was, it's still just one night. To achieve lasting greatness, he'll have to repeat moments like that again and again. He could start on May 8, when he goes up against International Boxing Federation and WBC featherweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez, a tough, powerful counterpuncher. Though ranked as boxing's top featherweight, Pacquiao holds no title belts in the division - beating Marquez would make him the official champ and quiet any doubters who feel the Barrera fight was a one-off. Some question Pacquiao's readiness, however, whereas Marquez has apparently...