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When Kim or Benny ("Kid") Paret or somebody else noticeable dies, there is always a momentary call for stricter regulations, fewer rounds, lighter gloves. And headgear, though one of the six boxers killed this year was wearing one. Naturally, some people also talk of abolishing boxing. But when boxing was illegal, men fought in back rooms and on barges. Men fight. Some put courage with skill and make art, not that boxing is justified even as art (though Muhammad Ali in his prime surely made it seem so). Boxing will exist as long as what it reflects in men exists...
...beverages, a wireless telephone and "whisper" exhaust fans. Price: $32,000. If a desire to work should suddenly take hold, the relaxing executive can unsnap the 18-karat-gold clasps of a black crocodile attaché case ($25,000, from Dunhill), fitted with two gold pens, pencil, cardcase and lighter...
...best way to use [closet hooks]... is by starting with the lighter items first. Several short sleeved sport shirts make a good base. It is much easier to hang a pair of corduroy work pants over two sport shirts than it would be to hang one sport shirt over two pairs of corduroy pants...
Updike's past excesses stemmed from enthusiasm, an ardency toward the world that his major characters share as well. In the famous conclusion of Rabbit Run (1960), the hero races toward life as if it promised victory: "Out of a kind of sweet panic growing lighter and quicker and quieter, he runs. Ah: runs. Runs." Updike's men are lovers of the here and now and not afraid to look foolish while saying so. Piet Hanema in Couples, Harry Angstrom in the three Rabbit novels, Bech, assorted adolescents and husbands in the short stories: all act in childlike...
...times bitter flavor, and during the past ten years U.S. brewers have cut back by about 15% on the ingredient in nearly all their brands. Explains Leo Bernstein, vice president and director of laboratories for Schwarz Services International, a Connecticut consulting firm that works with breweries around the world: "Lighter beer was a marketing decision when American brewers wanted to enlarge the market by making a beer you could drink a lot of. With German beers, you can't drink so much or the bitterness will make your mouth go numb...