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There were no punch cards or dimpled chads, but yesterday, for the second straight year, technical glitches disrupted the opening of online voting in the Undergraduate Council elections...
...fighter is sucker punched by fate, as the characters in many Cash songs are, then the heroic thing is to punch back. Cash, as a man and an artist, had the strength to see that bad times may be not a curse but a challenge. His biggest pop hit, the Shel Silverstein song A Boy Named Sue, might be considered comic frivolity for a man whose voice and choice of material more typically dealt in darkness. But the story of a man searching out the father who gave him a girl's name has its own Cashian moral...
...boxing ring, five seconds can be an eternity, as Alex "the Slugger" Wade learned when Vince "Dynamite" Dickson landed a punch square in his face at the 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...
...charity. To join, men - there are still only a handful of women - undergo a physical ("like something out of the army," says Wade) and pay €140, which doesn't include any of the training costs (from €14 per session, depending on where). The first lesson: taking a punch. More used to rhetorical jabs than any other kind, the men "screw up their faces or turn away," says boxing trainer Umar Taitt, whose two front teeth are gold set with diamonds. "In boxing, you can't flinch." Clearly, boxing appeals to some on a primal level. "I think...
...Crimson’s depth stood out despite the absence of sophomore Sara Sedgwick, who was injured Friday against Penn State when the Nittany Lion keeper tried to punch a ball away, but hit Sedgwick’s chest instead. Sedgwick will have x-rays today to determine whether any ribs are broken...