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...eyes, not only of the American nation but of the world, are focused on the state of the president's past unions." --Iran News, referring to Clinton's Tuesday address. The article added that an Iran-U.S. rapprochement "can only be after the presentation of a tight iron belt to the president of the United States -- with a lock and key for Hillary...
Enter challenger Michael Weiss, 21, who's been beefing up his rebel routine. He pumps iron with his father Greg, a former Olympic gymnast, for an hour every day in addition to half an hour of cardiovascular training, 45 minutes of stretching and four hours of skating. "Not being one of the favorites, it'll be important for me [at Nagano] to have something extra," he says candidly. That something extra is the elusive quad, the Holy Grail of men's competition--four revolutions and a one-foot landing. No American man has ever managed to nail one in competition...
...wounded child. "A girl was screaming, and I went out and saw my son lying on the ground. I grabbed him by the belt, and beneath him there was blood everywhere." Sipping Turkish coffee, Qerim glances at his wizened father. The crackling fire in a small cast-iron stove fills the silence as the Krasniqi men, sitting on cushions around the edge of the dark, bare room, consider the violence that followed...
Chiapas' campesinos are painfully accustomed to the iron fist of feudal P.R.I. chieftains, known as caciques, who make them survive on small hardscrabble plots. Land disputes in the state are frequent and usually settled with guns. But as democracy finally takes hold in Mexico--last year opposition parties won control of the lower houses of the federal as well as Chiapas state congresses--the caciques are panicking, and the killing has become more brazen. Opposition leaders blame police and the army for arming the sort of groups that hit Acteal...
...Tyson's teeth Bite Me, Part II: in his bout with Evander Holyfield, Iron Mike chomped twice on the heavyweight champ's ear; he lost the fight and, for a year, his license to box. Poor Tyson: he should have tried team sports. Then he could kick a photographer, spit on refs, attack fans--and get a fat contract peddling overpriced sneakers to underprivileged kids...