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...with a lovable little Damon Runyon-type character named Don Elbaum, who once made a flourish of presenting Sugar Ray Robinson the first gloves he ever wore at Madison Square Garden; Robinson was moved to tears, until both gloves turned out to be righthanded. "Confusion is a promoter's plight and his ally," says King, who is co-promoting the show with Sam Glass and Tiffany Promotions from Cooney's side. "There's something you should know about boxing: lying is commonplace...
...isolation combined with a concern that GSAS was being "dwarfed" by other, more formidable Harvard graduate institutions--the Law. Business and Medical Schools--first prompted Marshall to join the GSC in his second year of graduate school. Marshall has a favorite anecdote that illustrates what he sees as the plight of the GSAS student...
...most people are not even aware of them. The conceptual jump from homophobia to tolerance can probably take place for a heterosexual in only two ways--personally, through actually discovering the homosexuality of a friend too close to discard, or politically, by observation of the inescapable parallels between the plight of gays and minority issues to which they have less resistance. As numerous discussions of "visibility" have stressed, it is far more difficult to hate a gay classmate or neighbor than to hate gays in the abstract. But that fact works against the gay movement when the push for recognition...
...President in 1912 on a Progressive Party platform calling for a national system of social insurance. He lost, and the proposal was not an issue again in presidential elections until 1932, when another Roosevelt, Franklin, campaigned for the White House in a Depression-ravaged nation where the plight of the elderly had become desperate...
...haste to turn the other cheek for nuclear peace, it seems that Christian Evangelist Billy Graham has bit his tongue by turning his back on the plight of believers in the Soviet Union. In his May 9 sermon in the only Moscow Baptist Church, Dr. Graham refused to acknowledge three large English-language banners unfurled by Soviet Baptists protesting the labor camp incarceration of Baptists caught preaching. He said nothing about religious freedom in his sermon but instead quoted Biblical references about the need for obedience to authorities...