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...sister to set the record straight. Nonetheless, when the two wrestled in a pre-fight meeting on ESPN, Rahman succeeded in doing something that no previous Lewis opponent had done: allowed the champ to show that he at least some of the personality required to be a fighter...
Gatti is Italian, Ward is Irish. Neither fighter is exceptional, but both are brawlers who know no defense. Both are bleeders—Gatti cuts so easily that he wakes up in the morning with his eyes swelling and starts bleeding “somewhere between O Canada and the Star Spangled Banner,” according to Sugar...
...Americans don't like George W. Bush as a nail-biting diplomat - but they like him as a fighter. They like him as a clear thinker, a heavy lifter, someone who tells it like it is and then tells how it's going to be. They like him in black and white, and now that he's waist-deep in the Middle East mess he might as well...
...Palestinian cause. At 18, he surfaced in Gaza as a member of the Islamic Jihad. In the mid-1990s, he moved to Afghanistan, where his zeal and efficiency earned him a place in al-Qaeda's inner circle. Fastidious by nature, he was more a logistician than a fighter. Bin Laden trusted him enough to put him in charge of transit houses in Peshawar, the Pakistani border town. He became a kind of admissions officer, deciding which volunteers would be accepted for terrorist training. As a cover, he posed as a honey merchant but nonetheless attracted notice from the Pakistanis...
...author sparely, yet delicately, unfolds the history of David’s family. His father was a fighter pilot in World War II for the English, escaping his native Netherlands by stealing a small plane and simply flying to England. He later met David’s mother when recuperating from a career-ending plane crash as a crop duster pilot. She was the nurse who accidentally fell in love with him. This history, surreal as it seems, manages to captivate the reader by the poignancy with which it is drawn...