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...current troubles are hardly the first time the agency has been plunged into controversy. Three years after the death of FBI Director J. EDGAR HOOVER, the legend of the man once known as America's chief crime fighter was beginning to crack...
...even terms with Tyson, pushing - an offense which cost the champion a point when Tyson was shoved all the way down to the canvas in the fourth round. In a strange way, the roles had been reversed. Tyson, flat on his back and forlorn, looked like a fighter down on his luck, shove or no shove. Lennox Lewis, the bigger man, almost seemed an oversized bully. But, perversely enough, he started getting the crowd on his side...
...There will be no ceremonial pre-fight touching of gloves. No joint press conferences. In fact, the referee intends to give them the rules separately - with each fighter in his dressing room. Stacey McKinley, the mouthy, colorful assistant trainer who works for Tyson, blames the lack of pre-fight exhibitions on Lewis. "When you're a coward, you put a lot of things in the contract...
Gould was a fighter; he was proud to be the only person to be cured of abdominal mesothelioma, a condition doctors told him was terminal. Perhaps it is Gould’s own essay, “The Median Isn’t the Message,” which best conveys his gallant ability to combat cancer by adopting a positive, therapeutic attitude...
...features and a rusty beard, Hussain had been forced by the Taliban to pack explosives around the statues. The Taliban warned that if he refused, he would be shot. It was a threat that Hussain, a Shi'ite Muslim hated by the Sunni Taliban, took seriously. Earlier, a Taliban fighter had gunned down Hussain's two boys like stray dogs crossing a field, and gloated, "Anyone who kills a Hazara goes straight to paradise...