Word: triumphant
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...Since that triumphant night, Pacquiao (it's pronounced correctly as Pak-yao) has been hailed as one of the world's best fighters; Ring magazine recently named him the "people's champion" in the featherweight class. At 25, he's now a main-event attraction who can negotiate seven-figure-per-fight deals with HBO. Back home in the Philippines, he's revered as a real-life Rocky who slugged his way out of the country's pervasive poverty and proved that Filipinos can compete and win on the global stage. When he returned to Manila after his victory...
...greatly diluting small holdings," Rémon says. "At worst, they refuse, wait until Eurotunnel is in default, and take full ownership." The fate of the tunnel below the Channel is secure; it will operate under bank ownership if Eurotunnel folds. That scenario, however, would leave last week's triumphant small shareholders high...
After missing significant action due to a hamstring injury, Kane made a triumphant return to the starting lineup last Tuesday on Jordan Field, recording a hat trick to lead the Harvard men’s lacrosse team past Quinnipiac...
...help Haiti rebuild its ravaged democracy last week, it first had to remove a raving demagogue. Not President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who had already resigned on Feb. 29 and flown to asylum in Africa. Now the headache was Guy Philippe, whose rebel army had forced Aristide out--and whose triumphant entry into the capital, Port-au-Prince, lavishly upstaged the simultaneous arrival of hundreds of U.S. Marines. After sweeping the city of Aristide's armed gangs, the baby-faced Philippe, 36, declared himself Haiti's new "commander in chief," despite the fact that Haiti's army was disbanded a decade...
...irony did not escape Luis Moreno. In the blackness before dawn on Feb. 29, the U.S. official waited with Jean-Bertrand Aristide on the tarmac of the Port-au-Prince airport for the Haitian President's getaway plane. Moreno recalled that he had escorted Aristide on his triumphant, U.S.-backed return to Haiti 10 years earlier. When Moreno expressed regret at the turn of events, he says, the soon-to-be exiled leader replied, "Sometimes life is like that...