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...something wonderful, depending on your viewpoint. One of the sweetest men ever to practice the sweet science, Holyfield had won only two of his past four fights, and the Nevada State Athletic Commission was so worried about a heart irregularity that it would not sanction the fight unless he received clearance from the Mayo Clinic. "Nobody thought I could win," Holyfield said last Friday during a swing through New York City. "Their judgments were not based on our talents, though, but on our images. It was the monster with hate in his heart versus a man who was always talking...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "I don't feel comfortable giving the sanction of the state to homosexual marriages...I don't think that conflicts with my efforts to end discrimination against homosexuals in...other areas...
Some local residents said they were bothered by what they saw as a lenient sanction...
...sanction imposed reflects the club's acts of negligence, Scali said...
...announcer brags that "the president signed the Defense of Marriage Act." This was the law, passed by Congress this summer, that gave each state the individual right to decide whether to sanction and allow same-sex marriages without being bound to recognize the actions of other states--an exemption to the Constitution's mandate that "full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state." President Clinton has always been morally opposed to same-sex marriage. Thus, his signing of the Defense of Marriage Act (or DOMA...