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...paraphrase Yoda: Always there are two--a trainer and a fighter. In Pound for Pound, the former is Dan Cooley, a once great, now pathetic and drunk trainer to whom life has delivered one sucker punch too many (no, that will not be the last boxing clich� in this review). The fighter is Chicky Garza, a good-hearted, hard-hitting Tex-Mex punk, 62-9 with 33 KOs and a whole lot of old-fashioned bad luck. Dan and Chicky need each other. Connect the dots...
...past two months here in Washington, I have seen her enrapture an audience of evangelicals, command a meeting of the NAACP, and passionately testify before a commission on Hurricane Katrina in a church basement. And though at times she struggles—she still inflects awkwardly when delivering punch-lines and her laugh sometimes seems forced—the mix of her striking intelligence, her newfound confidence in taking political risks, and her personable manner exude a presidential mystique. Already, many Americans feel this aura as the ABC poll suggests: 37 percent of Democrats (and 19 percent of the general...
...fray; Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wanted to keep down casualties and reassure the international community that Israel had no intention of grabbing real estate in Lebanon. And, according to military sources, the Israelis also lacked on-the ground intelligence, so they underestimated Hizballah' s strength and its determination to punch it out. Despite the Israeli offensive, Hizballah still managed to sling over 2,000 rockets onto Israel...
...Every time someone mentions a designer brand. It’s like punch season at the Spee...
...upped the professorial trio of Summers, Sandel, and Friedman from 2005’s Social Analysis 76, “Globalization,” by offering Psychology 1002, “Morality and Taboo.” The course’s professors—a one-two punch of Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker and the Law School’s Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz—will likely draw lots of students with their popularity (not to mention that the popular Positive Psychology, Psychology of Leadership, and Human Sexuality are ALL not offered...