Word: amateurs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Golden Gloves is one of the most prestigious all-amateur boxing titles. Friday's competition, held in Lowell, Mass., pitted Liu against the only other woman in her division--"a tough competitor," in Liu's words...
...those plays aren't really Shakespeare's!" That is the rebel yell of a hardy band of amateur historians as they catch the wave of the bard's new vogue to resplash their thesis: Shakespeare did not write Shakespeare; Edward de Vere did. What's more, an ivory-tower conspiracy is keeping their views from being taken seriously. "We're into something called bardgate," says Peter Dickson, a CIA official turned revisionist Elizabethan scholar. Shakespeare is not a crook, reply the defenders of the glover's son from Warwickshire. And each side casts the other as devils citing Hamlet...
...member of the Harvard Boxing Club (HBC), Rettig won the novice heavyweight division of the Greater Lowell Golden Gloves Tournament, one of the most prestigious all-amateur boxing tournaments...
...unusual circumstances, Rettig, an Adams House resident, needed to win only one fight before his trip to the finals. In that match, his first amateur fight, he defeated his opponent handily, knocking him out almost immediately...
Winning the Golden Gloves is one of the highest honors within amateur boxing, Deleon said...