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...discarded the technical style he was taught as a teenager to fight in a way that guaranteed the audience's love. With his prominent eyebrows, low forehead and muscular body, he looked like something out of a '30s gangster movie. Larry Merchant once said he appeared as if "he oughta be fighting with a fedora...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arturo Gatti | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...Gramps isn’t pulling it off. No use being a wolf in a temperamental and frustrated old man’s clothing. Horseshit doesn’t work without a healthy dose of charm.” “For the record, I feel compassionate; that oughta count for something. Anyway, consider our bluff called. Even the old drones are turning tail: Brooksy, Lil’ Kristol, Chris Buckley and Newt Gingrich are so busy renouncing McBane on Fox News that our folks can’t get any airtime. Dick, you got any plans for reuniting...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: From Republican Headquarters | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...fact that Obama had referred to him by name in the same breath as Al Sharpton, using the two to illustrate the range of differences that exist within Christianity. But he also expressed outrage at Obama's assertion that individuals can be moral without being religious. "He oughta read the Bible," said Dobson. Obama, he charged, was "deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Dobson's Obama Hit Backfiring? | 6/26/2008 | See Source »

Alanis Morissette Flavors of Entanglement; out June 10 Miss You Oughta Know's first album since her ex-fianc got engaged to Scarlett Johansson is, naturally, confessional ("I miss ... the thought of us bringing up our kids"). It takes a hard heart not to be moved by Morissette alone at her piano--but a strong ear to love producer Guy Sigsworth's New Agey indulgences. A mixed bag if ever there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Things You Should Know About | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...Cornell fans are using every chant and taunt they can to get to the Harvard squad. This oughta be fun. Teams are both shooting around...

Author: By Crimson Sports Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CRIMSON LIVE: Men's Basketball @ Cornell | 3/1/2008 | See Source »

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