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...into Harvard unless you throw your hat into the ring, and that's our job: to get prospective applicants to throw in their hat," Lamar says...
Another would-be governor has just stepped into the political ring. The AP reports that on Monday's edition of "Live With Regis and Kathie Lee," Ric "Nature Boy" Flair said he plans to run for governor of North Carolina--possibly as an independent candidate...
...ring, Flair has been on the side of both good and evil. Who knows what he would do as governor? With such names as Jesse Helms in his political past, he might prove true to his wrestling image--a loose cannon. In the past, Flair has been planted solidly in the Republicans' corner, serving as a fundraiser or campaign for Helms, Rep. Sue Myrick and Sen. Lauch Faircloth, who lost re-election...
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...
Jones has no such problem, so Ross was asked the chances for an aging dreamer who sometimes doubles over in the ring with a nicotine cough but has more personality than most of the witless drones you see on TV. "The chances for a guy like that are slim and none," Ross says, "and Slim's about to leave town...