Word: pro
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...ivory tower. Bradley says that after two terms in the Clinton Administration, Gore has become one of those politicians who "stay too long and fight too much." But Gore is proud of his bunker. He's pleased to be a gladiator in the arena too--a pro who knows how to get the job done, who didn't leave town but stuck around to fight Newt Gingrich--because "the presidency is not an academic exercise or seminar; it's a daily fight." He dismisses Bradley's "maximalist measures" as having no chance of becoming law in the real world. Bradley...
...arrived to carry Elizabet and Elian to the promised land was no Cigaret-boat pro. Lazaro Munero, 24, was a maceta, a hustler. He had been seeing Elizabet since 1997, when she was divorced from Elian's father. In the summer of 1998, Munero and three friends made the trip to America on a tiny boat. But that autumn he returned to Cuba--heartsick, relatives say, to be away from his family and Elizabet. He was thrown in jail, but a few months months later, after his release, he began working to persuade Elizabet to join him on a second...
With a keg for a belly, a BORN TO RAISE HELL tattoo on his biceps, six missing teeth and a smile that shows his tonsils, there is nothing not to like about K.C. Jones. But for whatever reason, the pea-brains who run big-time pro wrestling haven't seen fit to give him his break...
...Tornado, Black Panther, Golden Lion. Every class is like fright night at the Elks Lodge. "Guy comes in, says his name is Greg, but he wants to be called Power Lord because that's what they called him in school," says Bill Anderson, 43, one of the two former pro wrestlers who run the school. "The guy's maybe 5 ft. 7. I said, 'Where'd you go, a school for midgets...
Jesse Hernandez, 49, the other pro who runs the school, shouts, "Let's go!" and his students beef into the ring to practice flying off the ropes like drunken sailors. "I broke two ribs my second class," says Marciano Mendiola, 29, who works with the mentally disturbed by day and seems to feel right at home with these classmates. One of them, Raymond ("Hurricane") Marcus, 18, got a $1,500 scholarship to the School of Hard Knocks. "He's part Soboba Indian, and the reservation gives out education grants," says his mother Sherri. "Jesse and Bill had to send letters...