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...effect of that meeting was to divide the administration and the students," said William P. Madison, a Thayer resident...
...prosperous Republican coal-mine owners, Lamm worked his way through the University of Wisconsin-Madison, even though he didn't have to, spending summers as a lumberjack in Oregon and an ore-boat deckhand on the Great Lakes. He became a C.P.A. as well as a lawyer, graduating from law school at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1961, and eventually rose through the ranks of Colorado politics. As a state legislator in the 1960s, he pushed through one of the earliest pre-Roe v. Wade laws that permitted abortion in certain circumstances, which later became a national model...
Boxing is never a beauty pageant, but the sport turned acutely ugly last week in Madison Square Garden when Riddick Bowe's heavyweight bout became an audience-participation slugfest. Bowe was clearly losing to underdog Andrew Golota when Golota punched him below the belt for the fourth time. Bowe hit the canvas, and the referee disqualified Golota. But Bowe's supporters, including promoter Rock Newman, stormed the ring, one of them smashing Golota over the head with a mobile phone. The crowd, smelling blood, started melees of its own, throwing chairs and punches until police regained sufficient control to make...
...YORK CITY: The Riddick Bowe-Andrew Golota bout-turned brawl, left another black eye on the sport of boxing and may have delivered a knockout punch to professional fights at Madison Square Garden. The bout turned ugly in the seventh round, when referee Wayne Kelly disqualified Golota, a heavy underdog who was clearly winning the fight, for repeated low blows. As Golota dejectedly walked back to his corner, handlers and hangers on overflowed the ring. Bernard Brooks Sr., a confidant of Bowe, shoved Golota from behind and then slapped him on the face. After Golota retaliated with a left, another...
...blues have never looked so green. Revenues from the Los Angeles and New Orleans HOBs totaled more than $35 million last year. "If you watch Isaac at work, he's a genius--he looks rock 'n' roll, but he thinks Madison Avenue," says John Sykes, president of the music video network vh1 and a friend of Tigrett's. "He is building a quality brand--you come and hear the blues, buy a burger and a T shirt on the way out. That's pure Isaac. He's not a quick-buck guy. He thinks long-term, and he puts together...