Word: griffith
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...Wang, who fell behind 3-0 in the first set against Marable but surged ahead with twelve straight game victories to win 6-3, 6-0 in the No. 6 position. The Crimson received its third point from Lingman, who at No. 2 overpowered Tennessee’s Blakeley Griffith...
...magazine's Asia edition last year that his operation was "safe, doable and effective." The world's first clinical trial of patient-derived oegs on human spinal-cord injuries, whose first results are due to be published this year, is led by Professor Alan Mackay-Sim, of Queensland's Griffith University. He says too many questions about Huang's procedure - even questions as basic as exactly what cells are used - remain. "These are extremely vulnerable people, and he's doing procedures that have no real scientific justification." Dr. Ann Turnley, of the University of Melbourne's Centre for Neuroscience, suspects...
...Emile Griffith is an old man now, but his round face lights up like a child's when he puts on his old boxing robe. He does not look like someone who would kill a man with his hands. But that's exactly what he did the night of March 24, 1962, during a televised boxing match against welterweight champion Benny Paret. Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story, a documentary from Dan Klores and Ron Berger (USA, April 20, 9 p.m. E.T.), searingly remembers a contest that crossed the invisible line into a killing...
...weigh-in, Paret, a Cuban immigrant, called Griffith "maricón"--a Spanish slur for homosexual and an allusion to rumors that Griffith was gay. Griffith does not reveal his sexual orientation, but, he says calmly, "I wasn't nobody's faggot." In the 12th round, he trapped Paret in the corner and unleashed a brutal flurry of uppercuts to his head. Norman Mailer likened the barrage to "a baseball bat demolishing a pumpkin." Paret died 10 days later...
...death led to the end of televised fights for years. (It's a history lesson for anyone decrying the chaperoned stunts on Fear Factor as a dangerous new low.) And Griffith could never shake the ghastly image of Paret slumped in his corner. Ring of Fire never really reveals what he was thinking as he flailed away on Paret, but it ends in tearful closure as he meets Paret's son for the first time. A gracefully told story of sport, sexuality and contrition, Ring of Fire is an emotional knockout. --By James Poniewozik