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...audience is not overly surprised, then, when Gilliam finds himself unable to play the trumpet after receiving a broken jaw in a brawl. Gilliam's loss elicits mixed feelings. It is sad to the extent that his entire reason for living is snatched away, ironically while defending Giant from thugs looking to collect on gambling debts. At the same time, Gilliam's decline and fall is predictable--considering the previous structure of his life--and is, to a large degree, well-deserved...
...case revolves around a 1974 brawl at a high school wrestling match in Lake County, Ohio. As a result of that fracas, former wrestling coach Michael Milkovich was officially censured and his team put on probation. The penalties, however, were set aside after a court hearing. That led indignant sports columnist J. Theodore Diadiun to write in the Lake County News-Herald: "Anyone who attended the meet . . . knows in his heart that Milkovich and ((school superintendent H. Donald)) Scott lied at the hearing after each having given his solemn oath to tell the truth. But they got away with...
...argument over a dollar's worth of fruit. Two weeks ago, Newsday's Pulitzer-prizewinning columnist Jimmy Breslin was suspended for aiming a tirade of racial and sexual slurs at an Asian-American co-worker who had criticized his work. At Long Island University's Brooklyn campus, a brawl broke out when a white professor from the City College of New York delivered a lecture proclaiming white genetic superiority. Another C.C.N.Y professor, this one African American, joined the chorus with a theory that blacks, the "sun people," are warmer and better than cold and selfish whites, the "ice people...
According to NU Sports Information Director Bill Doherty, only a handful of "plague-free, over-the-hill" fans were allowed in to watch the Red Raiders plaster the Huskies--who were playing without seven players serving suspensions for a brawl against Merrimack...
...says the markdown is necessary to protect its hard-won 41% market share. But beer-industry investors fear that the move could escalate into an all-out price war in which profits could be sharply pinched. Predicts beverage-industry analyst Joseph Doyle: "Anheuser decided to join in the barroom brawl. It's going to get bloody...