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Unlike battles between ancient Roman gladiators, modern sports competition does not vanquish the defeated forever. Today's loser might be tomorrow's winner, and vice versa...

Author: By Peter K. Han, | Title: Laxwomen Have Green Seeing Red | 5/7/1993 | See Source »

...BEEN CALLED BOTH A dictatorial "monster" and a modern-day Jose Marti, | determined to vanquish Fidel Castro just as Marti battled Spain to free Cuba a century ago. Miami millionaire Jorge Mas Canosa is perhaps the most influential Cuban outside Havana. Over the past decade, he has built the Cuban American National Foundation, a lobby group representing Miami's Cuban exiles, into a muscular bullyboy capable of swaying U.S. foreign policy and pressuring governments from Moscow to Mexico City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Would Oust Castro | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

...million fans to its games in North America and Europe, averaging more fans per game than either the United States Football League or the American Football League in their initial years. And last year's World Bowl drew 61,000 fans to Wembley Stadium to see the London Monarchs vanquish the Barcelona Dragons...

Author: By Gordon P. Bellamy, | Title: Tackling the World | 4/9/1992 | See Source »

...urban cool over middle America. It is an old story: the street kid on the bike with bad grammar is the coolest thing there is. The small-town girls fall for him, and the small-town boys idolize him and imitate his haircut. And not only does he vanquish their Seventies rock with his rap, he also captures the crooks when the WASPs fail...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: Richochet Mixes Senseless Violena With Gratuitous Sex A Good Night Out | 10/24/1991 | See Source »

...doubt largely because Yeltsin is so popular, Gorbachev detests him, and Yeltsin heartily reciprocates the sentiment. They are trying to vanquish each other with public denunciations, parliamentary maneuvers, resolutions on ballots and demonstrations in the streets. But vicious as their rivalry is, it is nothing compared with the way politics used to be in the Soviet Union -- and might be again if the advocates of a return to repression were to prevail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

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