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...sportswriters called him the Brown Bomber, the Dark Destroyer, the Sepia Slugger, the Mahogany Maimer, the Chocolate Chopper, the Tan Tarzan of Thump. These were far more than sobriquets. As Chris Mead observes in his enlightening biography, Champion, Heavyweight Joe Louis Barrow could never be a mere titleholder. He was always an emblem...
...need to have a business model that's sustainable in the face of a growing China." From his office, Ian Campbell looks out on a vista of marooned shipping containers and the rusting industrial landscape of western Melbourne. Tariff cuts have taken a toll, to be sure, but most heavyweight manufacturers have decamped for China, leaving the country's industrial and engineering heartland as a distribution hub and home to small, parochial players. If you want to get the friendly Campbell really riled, ask him about bilateral trade deals. "I just want one of those Canberra politicians or bureaucrats...
...Saturday, the Harvard men’s heavyweight crew traded its former status as “giant” for that of “giant-killer,” shocking host Princeton in a six-second victory at Lake Carnegie...
Racing conditions on Saturday in Cambridge weren’t exactly ideal—a mediocre high of 51 degrees with a brisk wind. Luckily, the Radcliffe women’s heavyweight crew was enjoying a road trip to a much more temperate climate, and took full advantage of the impeccable Syracuse weather conditions to retain the O’Leary Cup with open-water victories over Dartmouth and Syracuse on Saturday at Onondaga Lake...
Monday, April 11, 9pm, Vatican City The Return of Cardinal Law You could have termed it "kickin' him upstairs" when former Church heavyweight Bernard Cardinal Law was handed an honorific, but influence-free posting last year after his 2002 resignation from the Boston Archdiocese. Law, who became a symbol of inaction by American bishops in response to repeated cases of priests sexually abusing minors, is now the archpriest at St. Mary Major, one of the four main Basilicas in Rome. It is a largely ceremonial role, far from the influence he once wielded as the single most powerful American Cardinal...