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...involved with a firm while I still lived in Germany. I didn’t participate in the fighting, but I was accepted as the firm’s mascot. I met a couple of hooligans while I was teaching martial arts, and I begged them to let me tag along. They were quite considerate and protective...
...nothing seems to match 1975's dedication to martial morbidness. Here, you can sink into the bar's floor cushions that look like filled sandbags, and order a cocktail from a waiter dressed in combat fatigues who was born long after 1975-like those sipping the drinks. So what draws the young and trendy Lebanese crowd? "Our parents tell us the war was a good time," says bartender Ali Ajami, 21. It can certainly seem that way from the comfort...
...these days. A nightclub called B-018, tel: (961-1) 580 018, has seats fashioned like coffins that fold down to form a dance floor. T shirts for tourists boast, beirut: it's a blast. But nothing seems to match 1975's dedication to martial morbidness. Here, you can sink into the bar's floor cushions that look like filled sandbags, and order a cocktail from a waiter dressed in combat fatigues who was born long after 1975 - like those sipping the drinks. So what draws the young and trendy Lebanese crowd? "Our parents tell...
...brand of combat was chased into the hinterlands and banned by court after court. Then, in 2001, Frank Fertitta III and his brother Lorenzo, entrepreneurs in the Las Vegas casino business, bought the tarnished name Ultimate Fighting Championship and rehabilitated the sport. Or, rather, remade it. Technically called mixed martial arts, ultimate fighting was given a set of rules (no more head butting) and a streamlined synthesis of fighting styles (so long, one-glove boxing!) rather than the old chop suey of contending martial-arts schools. A doctor was stationed at ringside to discourage death, and a referee joined...
...Like Kaczynski, Tusk was an early Solidarity activist. He was forced out of his job in a publishing house after the authorities imposed martial law. For years, he made ends meet by fixing cranes and cleaning industrial chimneys. He formally entered politics in 1991, joining a variety of short-lived post-Solidarity parties before co-founding Civic Platform. Once a staunch anticommunist, he has recently cultivated an image as a "moderate, liberal" politician with solid family values. Unlike Kaczynski, he eschews heated anticommunist rhetoric, promising instead to restore "dignity, honor and unselfishness" to Polish political life. And he has thrown...