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...Refections 2007,” held in Pound Hall at the Harvard Law School, was a collaboration between ten Asian organizations on campus. The banquet featured Boston-based band Phil Good and Emerson College journalism professor Paul U. Niwa, who spoke about the difficulties of being an Asian-American man and urged his audience to “grab a samurai sword and chop down the bamboo ceiling...
...infrastructure, the roads were well done, the railways and telephones were good, the health sector was good. The schools were the best in Africa - we had a 86-90% literacy rate. We had a sophisticated economy. And the Zimbabwean dollar was strong. In 1980, one Zim dollar was one pound sterling - or two American dollars...
...much had been made of this fight, which had been ballyhooed as the "Fight of the Century," and now in the penitential brightness of the ring Oscar De La Hoya, the most popular fighter in the world, and Floyd Mayweather Jr., boxing's best, pound for pound, awaited their fate as the judges handed in their scoring cards. But there was more to it than just the super welterweight belt: the world was judging the sport of boxing...
...months leading up to the super welterweight (154-pound) clash, motor-mouthed "Pretty Boy" Mayweather - who outside the ring carries $30,000 in pocket money and decorates himself with $1 million in diamond-encrusted jewelry - embraced the role of Iago, continuously woofing at his opponent. Seeking to irritate De La Hoya and fire up the partisan crowd, Mayweather came into the arena cheekily wearing a white sombrero and the red and green colors of Mexico on his trunks; his corner men wore T-shirts emblazoned with the words "Mayweather Loves Mexico." Meanwhile De La Hoya, the "Golden Boy" the superstar...
...does he appear too concerned about the legal provision that prevents prison inmates from running for office. Instead, Alem?n is out on the road campaigning in old form, with more optimism than Orphan Annie, more money than Daddy Warbucks, more jolliness than Santa Clause and a political charisma that - pound for pound - rivals Bill Clinton. And in Nicaragua, that combination trumps reality...