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...outcome unlikely even if U.S. troops were to withdraw. So, even if a civil war is already under way, it's worth remembering that civil wars do end - either when one side vanquishes the other, or else in a political solution when neither side is capable of delivering the knockout blow. But until the protagonists recognize that reality, the struggle for power in Iraq will rage as intensely on the streets as in the legislative chambers...
...Nazi journalist wrote, "It is hoped that the representative of the white race will succeed in halting the unusual rise of the Negro." His hopes were not disappointed; Louis lost to Schmeling in the twelfth round. When the American won the rematch with a one-round knockout, his countrymen exulted, but by then the jungle-killer image of Louis had become endemic. He was now compared to "a savage tiger" and "an irate cobra...
...grew up five miles apart. He was going to go in with us on the gym," says Goody, whose own nose is unmistakably bent. "I thought of him when Marvin was bleeding, and it looked like they might stop it, and they didn't. I knew the knockout was coming then. He fought like Rocky this time...
Technically, it was not a knockout. In a daze, Hearns had blithely walked away from a line of right hands that double-crossed him and smashed him to the ground. At Steele's count of "nine," Hearns was approximately erect, but the referee had a grace of sense. As Hagler was hoisted on a number of shoulders, Hearns was carried across the ring like a bride across the threshold by one grim man in formal dress with a boutonniere in his lapel. It was a relief to see Hearns walking even unsteadily later, though he bore scarcely a recognizable resemblance...
...corner. Ring of Fire never really reveals what he was thinking as he flailed away on Paret, but it ends in tearful closure as he meets Paret's son for the first time. A gracefully told story of sport, sexuality and contrition, Ring of Fire is an emotional knockout. --By James Poniewozik