Word: fighters
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...lower-middle-class population remains hooked. The average fan attending the match in mid-August would have paid not more than $0.25 for the outing. It ended in a 4-3 Mohun Bagan victory, as mistake followed mistake. When the final whistle blew, a bellow the sound of fighter jets echoed around the stadium...
Francine Mukantarengwa is describing how she survived the genocide when my translator breaks down. "Fourteen people in my family were killed," she says. "The brother of the killer of my family - he hid me." At this point, the interpreter, a former fighter with Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), starts weeping. I let Francine go. She'd already told me about her life after the genocide. "I was abandoned," she said. "I was alone and I had nothing." And now? "Now I have goats, I have two cows, I have built a house. I have 700 coffee trees...
...decide to get a face-lift at age 77? -Anna Clark, BLOOMINGTON, IND.It's kind of funny, but I've been exposed to a lot of G-forces as a fighter pilot and in space. That caused a sagging jowl that needed some attention...
...Another challenge is that much of the attention he's gotten recently has been the unflattering kind, stories that question his sincerity and assail his image as a fighter for the little guy by focusing on his pricey haircuts, huge house and hedge-fund job. These viral attacks, spreading from the Drudge Report and other blogs to newspapers everywhere, make a dumb argument. They assume that someone who's wealthy can't be a sincere advocate for poor and working people. By that logic, the healthy can't speak on behalf of the sick, or whites on behalf of people...
...Part of being a convincing fighter is also demonstrating that your toughness isn't a recent development. And that's why so many fighting words are tied to personal biography. In 1996, Bob Dole-15 points down against Bill Clinton, restarted his campaign by resigning from the Senate in a way that reminded voters that he has gritted his way through adversity before: "...I will be the same man I was when I walked into this room, the same man I was yesterday . . . and a long time ago, when I rose from my hospital bed and was permitted...