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...hell out of each other in front of crowds. The attraction? Says Lacey, "Death or glory. Boxing is a chance to make their schoolboy fantasies come true." Now the club is set to expand to Germany, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Lacey has had the most requests from Germans (and the German media), though he's not sure why. "Maybe they like seeing other people get hit," he says with a shrug. The Real Fight Club has a rival in Australia - the for-profit Australian Academy of Boxing already offers white-collar boxing training and competitions...
...leather bindings, or the sight of their famous or almost-famous authors, Frankfurt's annual international book fair (www.frankfurt-book-fair.com; October 8-13), is the place for you. Founded in 1949, when East Germany's Leipzig - for centuries the leading book-fair site - was no longer accessible to West German publishers, the Frankfurt exhibition is full of superlatives. In 2002, some 265,000 visitors flocked to the Messegelände to visit the world's largest literary marketplace. They inspected the wares offered by 6,388 publishers...
...America is something like a dumb puppy that has big teeth?that can bite and hurt you, aggressive." JOHNNY DEPP, American actor who lives in France, in an interview with a German magazine. He later said the quote was taken out of context and that he merely meant the U.S. is "a very young country, and we are still growing as a nation...
Born in Waukeegan, Ill., in 1920, Ford graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1942. He served in the United States Army Signal Corps and the Office of Strategic Services, forerunner to the Central Intelligence Agency, doing intelligence work in Germany, studying the German resistance and visiting the liberated concentration camp at Dachow...
...European historian who had interests ranging across French and German history in both the early and modern periods, which was very unusual in the post-World War II era, when historians increasingly specialized in one national history, and one period,” Kirby said...