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...consistent. The men's version is fraught with sleaze, and--hey! so is the women's. LAILA ALI, 23, scored a majority decision over JACQUI FRAZIER-LYDE, 39, last Friday night in Verona, N.Y., in what was billed as the next chapter in the Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier feud but was actually a fight between two women who are very bad at boxing. True, both fighters came in undefeated: Ali had crushed 48-year-old grandmother Marjorie Jones; Frazier-Lyde had whupped a 19-year-old who turned tail when she saw Frazier charging. The fighters exchanged violent blows...
...while the eye-for-an-eye blood feud escalates on the ground, Washington is growing increasingly alarmed at the inability of the region's political leaders to bring the violence under control. In part, that is because the flash-point of that violence is fast becoming become the network of Israeli settlements dotted throughout the West Bank and Gaza, built after those lands were captured by Israel in the war of 1967. Palestinian militants have begun to make the settlements the focus of their mortar and shooting attacks, and when Yasser Arafat has - under pressure from Washington - called...
...foibles and transgressions off the court, was a fierce competitor with an intense desire to win. But Rider is a spoiled wild child, unwilling to give up his ways for the good of the team. Needless to say, this distraction-along with the ongoing Shaq-Kobe feud-has proved costly, as the Lakers still seem to be searching for that chemistry of a year...
...Friedrich Merz, the cdu's leader in par-liament, and Edmund Stoiber, head of the party's longtime Bavarian ally the Christian Social Union. Erwin Teufel, the cdu leader who has governed in Baden-Württemberg since 1991, complained last month about the "devastating image" the leadership feud was projecting on his own campaign...
...long-running feud between the FBI and prosecutors at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington over the investigation of the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing case has spilled nastily into public view with a blast from outgoing U.S. Attorney Wilma Lewis at FBI Director Louis Freeh and the Ashcroft Justice Department...