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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...
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...
Recently, Harvard has had the best of the University of Washington, with the men’s heavyweight crew defeating the Huskies by open water in the 2004 IRA national championships...
Former Washington varsity stroke Brodie Buckland transferred to Harvard this year, providing yet more championship experience to the Crimson varsity heavyweight crew...
Such was the case Saturday morning, when the No. 3 Radcliffe heavyweight women’s crew did battle with No. 1 Princeton on the Charles River for the Class...