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MICHAEL VICK, former Atlanta Falcons quarterback, just before a judge sentenced him to 23 months in prison for his role in an illegal-dogfighting ring...
...hope that one day ... I can show everybody that Michael Vick is not the person you see or hear about in the media.' MICHAEL VICK, suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterback, just before a judge sentenced him to 23 months in prison for his role in an illegal dogfighting ring...
...February, Purdy was convicted of running a prostitution ring out of his salon and was sentenced to two years in prison and a $5,000 fine. He will serve his new sentence after these two years are up. —Anna Tong contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Aditi Balakrishna can be reached at balakris@fas.harvard.edu...
...Madrid, it was with full enthusiasm that I bought tickets to a bullfight. After all, I came abroad to learn about Spanish culture, and what’s more Spanish than a bullfight? I’d read enough Hemingway to find the stone ring and the matadors’ colorful costumes—in short, the whole experience—dazzling and awe-inspiring. (Sentences such as, “Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter?...
...with disappointment in myself and in homo sapiens in general that I walked out of the bullfighting ring. What in human nature makes us want to turn death into sport? Death is, as we all know, a part of life. But it’s one that would ideally be met with acceptance and reverence—and there’s something carnival-like about the atmosphere of a bullfight that comes across stronger than any reverence the matador may feel toward the bull...