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...American boxer professed disappointment in a statement. "I understand Pacquiao not liking having his blood taken, because frankly I don't know anyone who really does," said Mayweather. "But in a fight of this magnitude, I think it is our responsibility to subject ourselves to sportsmanship at the highest level. I have already agreed to the testing and it is a shame that he is not willing to do the same. It leaves me with great doubt as to the level of fairness I would be facing in the ring that night...
...know that you think that makes me insane. After all, I run one of the most impoverished countries in the world. Here, a boom year is any one in which we manage to avoid a famine that kills thousands. But you have to understand, what I value most is control. That's what my father, our country's heroic founder, the Great Leader Kim il-Sung, desired; it's what I desire; and I've pretty much bet the family jewels that my 26-year-old son, Kim Jong-Un, will want the same thing when he takes over...
...hard-pressed to understand why al-Qaeda, a slaughtering group of extremists, and that brazenly ruthless movement called the Taliban would stick around for the next 18 months, making themselves a vastly outnumbered, living sacrifice to U.S. and allied forces, when all they seemingly have to do is hide out until we're supposed to leave?" --12/5/09...
...Brazilian family are respected lawyers and they understand the situation and they know what steps they can legitimately take within the system here," said a U.S. official familiar with the case. "But what we need to make clear is that the Government of Brazil is in agreement for his return [to his biological father]. We need to work through the legal system so the Brazilian government can enforce the return." Indeed, David Goldman had flown to Rio de Janeiro to pick up his son after a federal court in Brazil ruled he had legal custody of the boy, only...
...ordeal as a glaring showcase of how molasses-like Brazilian justice operates - of how justice often denied because it's so inexcusably delayed. Moreover, in a nation where family is all important, people have been critical of the spectacle of people fighting so blatantly over a child. Brazilians cannot understand why David Goldman did not visit his son for several years. But they also have trouble sympathizing with a family that is putting a 9-year old through an emotional wringer...