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...beginning of the second round. Blood trickled from Wade's mouth, and he swayed from side to side. The crowd of 800 at London's York Hall - the spiritual home of British boxing - held its breath. But Wade returned with a flurry of punches, and finished with his pride intact. Despite his tough-guy nickname, Wade, a 37-year-old father of two, is not a professional boxer - he's a lawyer and writer. "I cannot overemphasize how terrifying the whole thing was," says Wade. "But it's an adrenaline boost you don't get every day." In the past...
...attacks on the Mossad or the CIA. The truth - that the callous murder of almost 3,000 civilians was carried out by 19 Arab men who considered themselves devout and pious Muslims carrying out a blessed act - was too horrific to swallow. Cowardly attacks on civilians elicited little pride in the Muslim world, and plenty of revulsion. That was why they had to be blamed on somebody else...
...grand and surprisingly emotional affair. President Megawati Sukarnoputri oversaw the gala ceremony in Jakarta and impulsively stepped aboard to take a closer look. For the Indonesian crew, led by I Gusti Putu Ngurah Sedana, a navy captain from Bali, the expedition is clearly a tremendous source of national pride...
...found objects like boarding passes, foreign currency and feathers tucked into a clear outer lining. It's a music collection that includes everything from a vinyl EP of the disco-punk band the Rapture to Whitney Houston singing The Star-Spangled Banner at the Super Bowl. "There's a pride taken in being open minded, whether that's Top 40 music or some obscure German laptop artist," says Margot Nason, director of trends at Youth Intelligence, a firm that tracks tastes and styles...
...only an original Cremonese masterpiece, at least one world-famous violinist was impressed by a Gliga instrument. In a 1995 letter to Gliga, Yehudi Menuhin wrote, "Dear and very fine craftsman ... I shall treasure the instrument you made ..." At his headquarters in Reghin, Gliga displays the Menuhin letter with pride, convinced that the reputation of Transylvania as a center of violin-making excellence will eventually be acknowledged. And that maybe then he will be able to return to his workbench. --Reported by Mihai Radu/Reghin