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...Pacquiao didn't need prayers. He sprang off the canvas with a playful bounce and waved his opponent forward: bring it on! After that, the fists flew one way. In the third round, Pacquiao landed a concussive left that scrambled Barrera's motor control; the favorite sat down in the ring like a stunned child, feeling a shock that would soon spread to the rest of the boxing world. By the end of the 11th round, a humbled Barrera had been bludgeoned into submission, with Pacquiao landing 150 more power punches than the Mexican. The referee stopped the fight...
...felt like it was a purely American game. It didn't have a lot to do with me - it's very much about American style and standards. I can understand why European directors say Hollywood is poison. And it's interesting and sobering for me to sit in the Third World, watching the [Old] and [New] Worlds argue about how European movies have no values and American movies have no culture. And I worry about the influence Hollywood has on the young people in China. I think we need to make our own movies and do a better...
...spotlight but also in a brand-new position. Since his job at shortstop was already taken by the beloved if defensively inferior Yankees captain Derek Jeter, ARod, desperate to abandon the train-wreck Texas Rangers, agreed to play third. More challenging than standing 40 feet closer to the batter will be playing in an atmosphere where anything other than a World Series victory is considered failure. If he can succeed at that, the sport's best player could finally give baseball a Michael Jordan--size star, as long as people outside New York City can celebrate another happy Yankee...
...which blames Bush’s intellectual property policy for making AIDS medication unaffordable in the third world, chanted “Bush and pharma sitting in a tree, killing people with...
...players in the better world are new to the field. Liz Claiborne's better label has been around for 28 years and represents approximately one-third of the company's annual business. But the category hadn't seen much change in several years, providing an opportunity for the company to make a splash with some new additions. "We already had four successful labels in the category when we decided to launch two new better lines," says Angela Ahrendts, executive vice president at Liz Claiborne Inc. The company's Intuitions and Realities collections were introduced this month in more than...