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Boxing right now is punch-drunk legends, venal managers, scheming promoters, calloused writers, hopeless under-cards, injured preliminary boys, several champions per myriad division and one middleweight monster. Also, lately, hectoring medical associations and posturing legislators. Watching a fight like last week's in both horror and appreciation, finding equal wonder in savagery and science, one is amazed and a little ashamed that there has always been a class poor enough for this uncivilized business, this simplest sport or this purest art. What can you call it? Jake LaMotta, still married, called it "the best three rounds of fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: For Love of a Smelly Art | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...Body-Conscious Babe.” Mere coincidence or subtle insinuation? Who knows, but every college girl worth her tequila salt has been in the position of the real-life “party girl” who says “I drank too much fruit punch and vodka, forgetting there is a lag between when you drink it and when it hits you. I spent the night hurling in my bathroom and my friends have photos of me leaning over the toilet...

Author: By Erin K. Mulkey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Saucy Self-Help Book Serves '10 Women' | 4/8/2005 | See Source »

...female undergraduate was assaulted on Wednesday night while walking on Bow Street near Adams House, and she reported to police that she defended herself by kneeing the suspect in the groin and attempting to punch him before fleeing the scene...

Author: By Reed B. Rayman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student Fights Off Assailant | 4/8/2005 | See Source »

...have to deal with the regret that inevitably follows taking one too many shots. We didn’t know about beer pong, or funnels, or Everclear, choosing instead to spend our time at awkward dances and single-sex sleepovers. But while we were crowding around the punch bowl in the school gym and playing video games in our basements, 15-year-old Rachel E. Porter was stuck watching drunken friends throw up all over themselves. She describes a particularly “traumatic” incident at the annual Dunster House goat roast, when a friend vomited right...

Author: By Jennifer P. Jordan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Porter's Kid Hopes For More Harvard | 4/7/2005 | See Source »

...second line of which Sifers is a crucial member, however, was not counted on for scoring punch this season. Instead, the unit—also featuring junior Carrie Schroyer and sophomore Liza Solley—became known for its intensity and aggressive fore-checking...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Just Wait Until Next Year (or the Year After) | 4/6/2005 | See Source »

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