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From then on, young Ramos remembers, "I never had a moment to myself." Almost every day he trained like Rocky, running eight miles each dawn through the shadowy streets, then working out for three hours in the evening at a gym. "This is only the beginning," he says. "I'm already poppin' the gray hairs. You got to be a 24-hour man in this business. I'm only 19, and damn, there are so many things I'd like to be doing." In a rare burst of youthful candor he says, "First thing...
...hanging out in the boys' room, wondering which girls wore bras and which guys shaved? Discovering which novels were literature and which smut? Trying to keep a diary and discovering that nothing about your life was really worth writing about, even after all those steamy Friday nights in the gym? Working your way past crushes and puppy love and on to the real thing? Remember how you used to love asking rhetorical questions and speaking in cliches? Didn'tcha...
...satin robe with words to that effect written on the back. He gained that most important of titles through a series of remarkable events, some of which were beyond his control. Yes, he did work for the title. Started at 12 when someone stole his bike; went to a gym to learn how to kill the kid when he found...
...recent anti-Harvard rhetoric is any indication the University may find a paper wall erected around its current campus. Chances are, had the exemption been repealed 15 years ago. Mather House would not have been built. Certainly Harvard would have had a much more difficult time constructing the Radcliffe Gym, which powerless neighbors squawked about to small avail. And 7 Sumner Rd. would probably still be an apartment building--and nothing else...
...Leningrad gym, a class of ten-year-old schoolgirls begins one of its twice-weekly sessions by executing handstands on the parallel bars. In Moscow's Central Army Sports Club, teams of soldiers exchange their combat boots for skates; a hockey puck is soon cracking like gunfire against the wooden boards. Near by, in Luzhniki Park, a group of middle-aged citizens sets out on a supervised 10-km walk, picking berries along...