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...girl is doing good and the dad loves me, man!" Arguello said, bursting into his manic Yogi Bear laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Politics Took Down Nicaragua's Boxing Champ | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...ever saw Alexis Arguello slug out a 13-round victory in the boxing ring knows he had the heart of a giant - too big, it seemed, to fit inside his skinny, 130-pound frame, which could pack a punch like a mule kick. Revered as the "Explosive Thin Man" and the "Gentleman of the Ring," Arguello - who committed suicide with a bullet to his heart on July 1 - was a champion like few others before him or after. Even on the rare occasion that he lost (he won 82 of his 90 career bouts), he gave an epic account...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Politics Took Down Nicaragua's Boxing Champ | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

Arguello tackled his first political job - as vice mayor of Managua - with a boxer's determination. "When I have to kill, I have to kill," Arguello said. "A man who makes a decision has to make it for the good of the country, and I love this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Politics Took Down Nicaragua's Boxing Champ | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...found controversy and ridicule. He was accused of winning by fraud and lampooned as a bumbling fool. The media dubbed him the "mayor appointed by the Supreme Electoral Council," and insinuated that his office was incompetent and corrupt - charges that would have felt like a low blow to a man who had prided himself on his transparency and ability to get things done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Politics Took Down Nicaragua's Boxing Champ | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...Lanka's 26-year civil war between the government and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) came to a dramatic end in May with a decisive military victory and the killing of Velupillai Prabhakaran, the Tigers' fearsome leader. President Mahinda Rajapaksa is the man who tamed the Tigers. Now his task is to heal a nation still divided by tensions between the majority Sinhalese and the minority Tamils. In a rare, wide-ranging interview, Rajapaksa, 63, talked with TIME's Jyoti Thottam at the President's official compound in Colombo on July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Tamed the Tamil Tigers | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

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