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...intelligent fighter, a master of the sweet science who won the title from Jack Dempsey on a decision in 1926. In their second fight, Tunney was ahead on points when Dempsey decked him, then lost his chance to regain the title when he was slow to go to a neutral corner. Given an extra four seconds to clear his head?the famous Gene Tunney in his prime (1926) Aloof from the Damon Runyon types. "long count"?Tunney got up and outboxed Dempsey the rest of the way to save his championship...
...home ice advantage," Watson Rink has been an eerie exception of late. One hockey player said last year that "playing at Watson is like playing on neutral ice," and he wasn...
Kyle's antihero is 35-year-old Hauptsturmführer Franz Rasch, a much decorated Waffen SS commando. Assigned to deliver the lists in Stockholm, he is betrayed by his bosses. His trail leads to neutral Ireland and England and finally back to Germany. There the disillusioned Rasch attempts to capture vital files from Schloss Wewelsburg, the Black Camelot that Himmler assembled as a Teutonic perversion of King Arthur's court. In one of the best siege narratives since The Guns of Navarone, Rasch and other embittered SS men infiltrate the monstrous castle at the same time that...
...proposing itself as a mediator in the current war, the U.S. is trying to portray itself as a neutral third party. Clearly, this is far from the truth. As U.S. corporate interests dictate that whatever changes take place be not too radical, Washington will only advocate minor changes. But the people led by the FSLN will continue to fight until the entire National Guard is defeated and dismantled, and a new national army that really represents and protects the interests of the Nicaraguan people is formed. Until that day, Nicaragua will remain a tiny country caught in the clutches...
...consider that "it is right to have peace with people of the book," as Jews and Christians are also considered by Islamic scholars. Cairo's strategy, as a result, will be to proceed unilaterally with peace talks, which are likely to end up in the U.S. as a neutral site. Sadat could then present fellow Arabs with a fait accompli. An Egyptian diplomat told Wynn last week: "Once the Israelis begin withdrawing and handing over land to us, we simply will ask the other Arabs a question: 'Do you want us to give Sinai back to the Israelis...