Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...standard first-year slate of courses, including Contracts, Criminal Law, Civil Procedure and Property. Moore says he likes all his professors, but he especially enjoys Civil Procedure with Visiting Professor David Trubek "because he's a Wisconsin guy. I used to go in [to class] humming the U. Wisconsin fight song...
...This is much, much bigger. It's bigger than all of us," he said, his words tumbling over each other. "We tried private war already--but like Newsweek said, too many losers and misfits were getting into it. The Freedom Fight is no place for every Joe Blow who subscribes to Soldier of Fortune. What we really need is real men and big money. You might not agree with him, but the Ayatollah is a real man. Now that source is dried up, we need a new supplier...
Even before last week's revelations, the President faced a hard and uncertain fight to get the funding renewed when the new Congress meets in January. Now Capitol Hill resounds with predictions that angry legislators will cut off aid again as a kind of punishment to North and those in the Administration who failed to monitor his activities. Says Minnesota Senator David Durenberger, a Republican and reluctant contra supporter: "It's going to be a cold day in Washington before any more money goes to Nicaragua. Ollie may have killed off his Nicaraguan program." Such a reaction has little logic...
...like despising it and those who dislike loving it -- are unsurprised whenever Roberto Duran or George Foreman comes back again. But they wonder how a bright person as prosperous as Sugar Ray Leonard (Ray Charles Leonard, namesake of a blind man) could return from retirement and retina surgery to fight Marvin Hagler at any price. "Ray doesn't spend in a year what his investments earn in a year," says Leonard's attorney, Mike Trainer. "It isn't money. Boxing is what gets him up in the morning. It's what he is, and there's nothing wrong with that...
...used to knock guys stone cold, as dead as Hector -- one punch," he reminisced. "I traveled all over the place to get fights. They would put me on last of all, and the people would be screaming when I came in." In 1982 he knocked a Nigerian named Alimi Mustafa dead as Hector. "I cry now whenever I think of that wee man, and sometimes when I swing on someone, there he is in front of me. His wife was pregnant, as mine was. Well he never knew it, but he had a son. I don't know...