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...thing about East New York is its enclosed, suffocating feeling. Most of the people live in the city's housing projects--brown brick buildings with narrow, dimly-lit corridors and miniature apartments. The schools, such as Thomas Jefferson High, have thick steel mesh spread across each broken window, and iron fences topped with masses of razor wire which surround the school and its playground...
Team Tyson, represented in court by Washington attorney Vincent Fuller, seemed unimpressed by the prosecution -- as if Garrison were Buster Douglas just before Iron Mike got tanked in Tokyo two years ago. "There were one or two members of Fuller's staff," notes Garrison, "who did not think us country bumpkins could find our asses with both hands." They were wrong about him, and about Washington. "She's a good kid with a pure heart and a tremendous amount of courage," Garrison says. "And she shined like a new penny in front of that jury...
...more wimps! Draft Iron John Sununu for President!" screamed signs in the windows of Amoskeag Books. According to Bill Petch, an employee, owner Laurie Saxon came up with the idea for the placards last week after considering all the announced candidates...
...reputation for being a tireless teacher of young writers -- and a tireless everything else, for that matter. It is a rare closing night that does not find Joe at his computer terminal, mulling over some late-breaking story, raising questions, smoothing transitions, apparently impervious to the late hour. That iron-man constitution should serve him well as the leader of TIME's Olympic team. Joining Ferrer for the task is senior editor Stephen Koepp, a ski enthusiast on a break from his duties in the Business section...
...blood sport call a pure fighter. This is atavistic manhood, stripped of all weapons but fists, guile and will. A man-beast-machine: hunter, warrior, conqueror, terminator. Even lover. The other guy in the ring is Tyson's partner -- a heavy date -- as well as an opponent; Iron Mike must find the man's rhythms, whims, indulgences, weak spots. A fight with Tyson at his physical and emotional peak is like a brisk courtship that ends in slaughter...