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Mayweather (40-0, 25 KOs) also has a tough opponent. Mosley is a wily 38-year-old who twice defeated Oscar De La Hoya. (Both Mayweather and Mosley have agreed to random blood testing.) Richard Schaefer, CEO of Golden Boy, which is promoting the fight, predicts that HBO will sell 3 million pay-per-view buys to make it the biggest fight in boxing history. It will also be shown in theaters nationwide. (Watch TIME's video "A Free Boxing Lesson with Oscar De La Hoya...
...that your dad pulls out your book for every person he meets. But how does he react when he reads the stories about him? You pretty much call him crazy. I was [writing] about him and his 20-year-old Jamaican cleaning lady [also his girlfriend]. And he said he didn't want me to talk about that in this book, because that's private information. He doesn't want people to think that he is off the market - as if anyone wants to be "on the market" with him. And then he said that he wanted to be paid...
...slowdown was partly attributed the difficult economic climate. While China was able to grow at 8.7% last year, that healthy rate came at the expense of $586 billion in stimulus spending. Last week Premier Wen Jiabao said that government spending would grow more slowly this year as Beijing seeks to control inflation while maintaining stable growth. (See pictures of the making of modern China...
...those economic demands, another double-digit increase in military spending might be seen as excessive. But perhaps the most compelling reason for the slowdown in spending is that Chinese officials have become more cautious of the way the development of the People's Liberation Army is perceived abroad. Last year China marked the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic with an Oct. 1 military parade in front of Tiananmen Square. While generally a cause for celebration in China, the parade of soldiers, tanks and missile carriers was seen as intimidating by many foreign observers...
...form of the anti-power-sharing Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV). The party has no seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly but has growing support among conservative, Evangelical Protestants, in part because a scandal involving Robinson's wife Iris (who obtained $80,000 from property developers to help her 19-year-old lover establish a café business) has rocked the bigger party's Evangelical base. Many expect the TUV to do well in the upcoming British general election. "The DUP is very worried," says Rick Wilford, a professor of politics at Queens University, Belfast. "There's a lot of disgruntlement...