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...junior from Salida, Calif., is a C student with a filthy mouth who has been known to saunter into class on his own schedule. And, yes, as Russell readily admits, after a bout of name-calling with a white classmate last fall, he threw the first punch in a fistfight that left him battered and his adversary with five stitches over his left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning While Black | 5/27/2002 | See Source »

...this were an ordinary tale of one more controversial pollutant, it could be resolved in U.S. courts. But the MTBE conflict has exploded into an international fistfight, a test case for globalization and a key issue in President Bush's effort to win new trade-negotiating powers from Congress next month. That's because METHANEX, the Canadian company that makes a key ingredient of MTBE, is challenging California's ban under the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement. The case has raised doubts about whether a state can protect its drinking water as it sees fit. Do such health regulations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Toxic Trade? | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

...montage of eccentric actions. She broke up with her beau of three years, Latino popster Luis Miguel. She had a catfight (though not, as reported, a fistfight) with Mira Sorvino on the set of her next film, Wise Girls. She looked frazzled and spent on a BET interview show. She stripped down to a sports bra on MTV's Total Request Live. At a mall appearance in Westbury, N.Y., Carey rambled about "positivity" until Berger grabbed the microphone from her; the mike went back and forth, and, Berger says, "I won." This led to an intense chat between star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Diva Takes A Dive | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...policy of "liquidating" Palestinians with snipers and helicopter gunships. He was also a Ta'amra. In Bethlehem that makes him untouchable. The burly Ta'amra ran over, grabbed the P.F.L.P. youth and began to beat him in the marketplace. Within minutes, a gang of P.F.L.P. supporters arrived and a fistfight broke out. Some of the brawlers brandished guns. Later, people who were there said it was a miracle nobody started a gunfight. But Kamel Hemeid, local chief of Arafat's Fatah Party, dismisses the confrontation: "One guy got beaten up. That's a small problem." Hemeid is a Ta'amra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Palestinians: Torn Apart | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...with his manager, Jimy Williams, after he returned from his suspension. The rift erupted again recently when Everett, nursing an injury, arrived late for a doubleheader. He was enraged to see that he was slated to start the game. Swearing loudly in the clubhouse, he nearly got into a fistfight with Darren Lewis, who started in his place. Williams expressed surprise and confusion that Everett had not contacted him about being late...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Fenway's Frustrations | 9/27/2000 | See Source »

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