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...convict, who almost knocked Joe out three different times. Joe's left eye was blackened, his lower lip was frayed, his face was starting to lose definition just like in the old days, and he felt wonderful. "It was worth it to me," he said. "When I got shook, I knew I had to survive. I proved myself. I don't see no reason to stop fighting now." Ali can see no reason either. . . . remembering that the man who fights one more round is never whipped...
...Santa shook his head. "She's gone on a health kick. She jogs every day, and she's already lost 120 pounds. She's also become a vegetarian. I can't stand...
Jack Reed! Trotsky called him "observer and participant, chronicler and poet of the insurrection," and Lenin urged that Ten Days That Shook the World, Reed's report of the Russian Revolution, be "published in millions of copies and translated into all languages." Max Eastman said, "He had a reckless equilibrium in walking life's tightropes"; Walter Lippmann called him "one of the intractables," possessed with "an inordinate desire to be arrested." Max Lerner praised his "Faustian thirst for life"; Upton Sinclair dismissed him as a "playboy of the social revolution." Journalist and playwright, Harvard cheerleader and Moscow radical...
...spirit sank like the altar fire when the fuel was low. 'Shall we see it? Will a new Xerxes come?' The Chaldean shook his head. 'A dying, not a killing. Another city will rise and ours will wane. It is un der the sign of the King.' 'Will he live, then, after all?' 'He is dying, as I told you. But his sign is walking along the constellations, further than we can reckon in years. You will not see it setting in your...
Inspired by Dixon's example and the confident shooting of freshman Bob Ferry (7-for-11, 17 points), the hoopsters shook off the lethargic funk that characterized last weekend's unimpressive win over Brandeis and embarrassing loss to Stanford...