Word: heavyweights
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...banks have fired back, arguing that they'll get paid one way or another: they say Dodd's recipe is political posturing that will only produce higher initial rates for everyone and diminished credit for an ailing economy. "The American people can't manage their credit," says one industry heavyweight, "If you change the rules, guess what, we'll just start at a higher rate and you'll see a decrease in availability of credit and an increase in the cost to everyone else." (See the top 10 worst business deals of the past year...
...April 27 sports article "Crimson Lights Pick Up First Loss" incorrectly attributed a quote to first varsity heavyweight coxswain Chris Kingston, after the article's author was given the wrong phone number for Kingston by senior James Bayley, another member of the first varsity heavyweight boat. In fact, the quote came from senior James Canning, who is on the third varsity heavyweight boat, and not Kingston...
This weekend marked more races against the best crews in the nation, but only the lightweight women’s crew team proved up to the task. While No. 2 Yale got the better of the Black and White heavyweight women’s crew team on Saturday morning in the Charles River Challenge, the lightweights knocked off No. 2 Princeton to win the Class of 2009 Cup.The No. 4 Black and White have done what only one other crew in the country has managed to do—beat Princeton in dual competition. With all the hard work...
...beaten up regularly by the local toughs - "Very few of them," he says, "are functioning adults right now" - who lured him into street crime. As a 12-year-old in a detention home he was discovered by Cus d'Amato, who had trained and managed Floyd Patterson to the heavyweight boxing title in the '50s. Cus saw potential in this soft-spoken junior thug, and Mike went along with the program because "I was afraid of being physically humiliated in the streets again...
...pupil: he obsessively studied old films of boxing legends, learned the spiritual side of the warrior mentality and, he says, "restrained myself from having sex for about five years." He tore through the amateur ranks, knocking out one opponent in a record eight seconds, and was heavyweight champ before he was 21. (His mentor died just before the big fight.) Those victories helped him realize that "I don't have to worry about anyone bullying me again...