Word: tysons
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...POINT DURING THE DEFENSE summation in the U.S. District Court wire-fraud proceedings against boxing promoter Don King, his premier fighter, the convicted rapist Mike Tyson, could be seen dozing off on a bench in the back of the New York City courtroom, holding a book of essays by Leo Tolstoy: What Is Art? At the time, Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment seemed a better choice: the prosecution had called 18 witnesses to back up its claim that King falsified a contract to collect $350,000 from Lloyd's of London for a canceled fight in 1991, and the defense...
Though the latest trial for King was not resolved one way or the other, at least Peter Fleming, his eminent defense attorney, provided an answer to the question once asked by one of Tyson's favorite authors, namely, What is art? Art is the stately former Assistant U.S. Attorney telling reporters gathered outside the courthouse last Friday morning that there was no man in the world for whom he had more respect and admiration than Don King. "He is an enormously strong man, a man of decency, and I think the world should know it," said Fleming, who had actually...
...MIKE TYSON Perfectly timed broken thumb KOs slow-selling Mathis match...
...Suzanne Somers) and, by her own count, seven alleged murderers. This woman, who was caricatured in her Sarah Lawrence yearbook as an ostrich with its head in the sand, has stuck her nose into the conflict in the Middle East, the Iran-contra scandal and the marriage of Mike Tyson and Robin Givens. She is a living, talking, occasionally fawning chronicle of culture and politics in the latter half of the 20th century. She is like a redwood that...
...point, a particularly testy exchange flared up after Domenici and Tyson got into what senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl called a "gloves-off discussion over Medicare and Medicaid cuts." When Tyson interrupted Domenici, the New Mexico Senator snapped, "I did not interrupt you, and you spoke for 14 minutes!" The tension subsided only after Sinai took the opportunity to remind his fellow panelists that in economics, discourse and disagreement often go hand in hand. "If we laid all the economists from end to end," he said, "they would not reach the same conclusion." That was one point on which even...