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...Players compete in divisions based on age and gender. Giordano Benassi, who leads the eight-person Italian delegation, says that in this "game of strength" female participants must be protected. "For a small woman going against a big man, there would be a problem psychologically," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Came, They Saw, They Conkered | 10/17/2007 | See Source »

...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 champion. This was no collision of cultures, no epic battle, no thing to be remembered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia in the Boxing Ring | 10/16/2007 | See Source »

...just as important that women be helpless and in need of rescue and grateful for rescue as it was that men be strong. The way that the American male hero was supposed to present his strength was by saving a helpless woman. If the woman could defend herself, then the drama couldn't be enacted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Susan Faludi on 9/11 Myths and Truths | 10/15/2007 | See Source »

...women’s side, Harvard beat second-place Middlebury by 21 points, largely on the strength of underclassmen. Led by freshman Meghan Houser, who was first overall with a time of 18:23, the whole team finished within...

Author: By Lucas A. Paul, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Dominates Albany Invitational | 10/14/2007 | See Source »

...required to be a diverse place that highlights the Pan-African dance troupe or elects a woman to its highest office. In the not-too-distant past, neither of these events would have happened; it took the institution’s human side—the strength of its community members’ moral convictions—to push it toward the image of Harvard that will be on full view today in Tercentenary Theatre...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Harvard’s Human Touch | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

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