Word: roundness
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...Khodinka Ice Palace and on into the sleet-slush shadows of central Moscow. Holyfield had just tried and failed to become boxing's heavyweight champion for a fifth time, having come to the place where such things are now attempted. Sultan Ibragimov retained his WBO belt in a 12-round decision...
...ticket for the recent, much-ballyhooed fight between Oscar De la Hoya and Floyd Mayweather at the MGM casino in Las Vegas were priced at $2,000.) The Ibragimov-Holyfield fight failed to live up to its lofty price tag, however, as the champ and challenger conducted a 12-round Krokus City pantomime. It was the case of a lionhearted, but aged ex-champ conserving his strength in order to go the distance against a belt-holding opponent who has benefited greatly from boxing's fall from primacy in the West. Ibragimov did not display the stuff of a real...
...football team has no Division I-AA postseason regardless of how well it does, and our basketball team, even if it did capture the Ivy League title, wouldn’t be expected to make it past the first round of March Madness...
...having a worthy adversary during its regular season, Harvard was unsurprisingly shell shocked when it traveled to southern California to play UCLA in the second round of the NCAAs...
Lucky Condoleezza Rice. After a round of bruising meetings in Russia, the Secretary of State was rewarded with a ticket to the Middle East and a mission to convince the region's leaders to come to Maryland next month to discuss the most bedeviling issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Her daunting to-do list includes: Secure the support and participation of Israelis, Palestinians and other Arabs skeptical of the purpose of the talks; Fashion an agenda that includes substantial discussion on topics that have flummoxed legions of diplomats, and which some of the participants would prefer to gloss over...