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...thought we did okay,” said Weiss after the final match on Saturday. “We have been in our heavy training part of the season with tough practices the past week.”The Crimson have also suffered from critical absences, with heavyweight wrestlers Spencer DeSena and Andrew Knapp missing with staff infections, as well as Corey Jantzen (141 lbs.), who remains out with an injury. Harvard knew going into this weekend that individuals would have to step up and have stellar performances in order to compensate for the absence of these grapplers. As they...
...widespread casualties among Palestinian civilians but failed to defeat Hamas or even stop the group from firing rockets into southern Israel. Nor did the assault manage to free a kidnapped Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, trapped inside Gaza for over 2 ½ years. "Nothing's changed," griped Roman Greenberg, a heavyweight boxer whose muscles bulged from within a pro-Lieberman T shirt. "And inside Israel, we had Arabs protesting against the war and waving Hamas flags. How can we accept that...
...truly unexpected event, though, came in the Outstanding British Film category. The inclusion of heavyweight Slumdog among the five nominees seemed almost unfair, as if Stephen Hawking were to show up at your local pub quiz. Everyone was so busy assuming that Slumdog would walk away with the prize, it took a moment to register when Sharon Stone announced that Man on Wire - the critically acclaimed documentary about Frenchman Philip Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers - had actually nabbed the BAFTA. The film's director James Marsh was so unprepared that when he hopped onto...
...that he was a 4-1 underdog, unsheathed his vaunted right hand--which he called his "toonder and lightning"--in the third round, driving Patterson to the floor. Six more times he made Patterson one with the canvas, becoming the first non-American in 25 years to hold the heavyweight championship...
Over the next two years, they stepped into the ring twice more, with Patterson winning both times by KO. For his part, Johansson would go on to have--and win--five more fights, regaining the European heavyweight championship before retiring in 1963 with a record...