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...wanted to continue. "I was concerned because she's my wife first, my fighter second," he says. "She told me, 'Don't you dare stop this fight.'" Martin's persistence was rewarded not only with the decision, the cheers of the crowd and the W.B.C. women's championship belt, but also with what for her was the ultimate compliment. "A few hours after the fight," she says, "I passed Mike Tyson at the hotel. You know what he said to me? He said, 'Hey, champ...
Think back on the presidencies of people who did that part of the job well: John Kennedy answering a press-conference question on the Van Allen Belt or Ronald Reagan comforting the families of servicemen killed in a Christmas-season air crash or even Bill Clinton, the debate-team show-off himself, talking to black ministers in Memphis...
...rules of "human consensus reality" (otherwise known as common sense) one thuddingly obvious assertion at a time. "Bread is a food," for example, or "You're wet when you sweat." CYC knows nearly a million of these rules now, and when it has another million or so under its belt, Lenat asserts, the program should be savvy enough to need no more spoon feeding. It will just swallow the encyclopedia whole and then ask questions about whatever it doesn't understand...
Allison Feaster, last year's Ivy-League rookie of the year and a first team All-Ivy selection, was entering the season with a year's experience under her belt. It also helped that co-captains Elizabeth Proudfit and Liz Gettelman, as well as starters Amy Reinhard and Katy Davis, were all in their senior year...
PITCHFORK PAT BUCHANAN AND HIS DEVOTEES CLAIM WHITE RACISM IS NO longer a problem. He should visit the Black Belt of Alabama, where African-American churches are being torched, a black judge's home has been shotgunned, and people generally feel under siege. From this vantage, it might not seem so wise to keep waving the Confederate flag and pretending there is no difference between singing Dixie and We Shall Overcome...