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...class lower, was trying to capture the IBF Lightweight Championship belt from hard-punching Leavander Johnson, 35, a tough-talking fighter from Atlantic City. Instead, Johnson would lose his belt, and on Thursday, five days after the fight, he'd lose his life because of injuries suffered in the ring...
...that the Coop is offering. One hundred and forty-nine dollars gets you a new textbook and new coursepack, wrapped together. Separately, the coursepack is $66 and the used textbook $111. In this case, the Coop’s vaunted efforts to save students money with used textbooks ring hollow in the face of the inflated coursepack price...
Neither man would give in, so the crowd roared for the fighters to smash each other again: more kicks, punches, stomps, knees and elbows. They obliged. When they got too tired to fight, they would grab each other and crash to the mat of the octagonal ring, grappling, twisting like strange action figures, pressing against the cage's netting. Then they would be back on their feet, catching a breath, calculating advantage, their faces streaked with sweat and gore. Both were bleeders. Weeks before, in a qualifying bout, Forrest Griffin, 26, had suffered a gash above an eye that required...
...cage surrounding the ring was intended to keep the audiences from jumping in as much as to keep the fighters from falling out. "Violence for the sake of violence," says Phil Mushnick, a sports columnist for the New York Post. "I understand that not everything necessarily has to have a redeeming social value. It can have no value. But this kind of stuff has negative value...
...Mike sees a headline about a rabbi and Mayor Giuliani on a tabloid cover – perhaps a reference to the fact that illegitimate priests and corrupt politicians both reside in the same ring of Dante’s Hell. The office-workers who jumped from the burning towers would fit into Dante’s Wood of Suicides. And Mike – who becomes a liar when he claims that “I lost my family in the attack on New York City” – is himself a falsifier, condemned to Dante?...