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...brilliance - a 3000-m bronze at Nagano, a 1500-m gold at the '98 Worlds, the 2000 European all-around title - were matched by disappointment, such as back problems that sidelined her for much of 1999 and a crash at the 2001 European championships in which she hurt her neck and her knee...
...back, "That's hockey." The two men scuffled, and Junta left the arena. He returned and repeatedly whacked the ref, knocking him out, as the children, including Junta's son and three of Costin's, watched in horror. The force of the blows ruptured an artery in Costin's neck, resulting in a severe brain hemorrhage. He fell into a coma and died the next...
...look less threatening. He had interviews with every kind of business from messenger services to department stores including Macy's and K Mart but received not a single viable offer. The kinds of jobs he was most likely to get he couldn't take. Because of an old neck injury, he can't do heavy manual labor--a common problem among former inmates, who, because of their intimate history with violence and needles, tend to have far more medical problems than average Americans. He responded to an ad in the paper for a bathroom-attendant firm in Manhattan. Impressed...
...people he had to report to, including his family, and he ran out of fingers. When he missed a drug-treatment meeting to go to a job interview, he had to defend himself to an irate caseworker. "It's like they got a rope around your neck, a rope around your feet, and they just tug on you because they can," he said...
...with his solid reviews in Ali helping cement his reputation as a Serious Actor, Foxx is dreaming large. "If I were to ever win an Oscar," he says, "I'd have a gold chain with the Oscar on my neck everywhere I went...