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...powerful and agile, but they also have a discipline, determination and dedication that would put many other athletes to shame. Two times daily, six days weekly, year after year, they labor in airless gymnasiums to master and reinvent the most difficult flips, twists and spins. Often they work in spite of painful strains, sprains and stress fractures. And always they work with the dark knowledge that the slightest bobble or a judge's caprice could mean the hundredth-of-a-point deduction that robs them of their glory...
...pleasure of seeing an Angolan accountant turned point guard play Michael Jordan one-on-one. That is why two of the most popular athletes in the world today are George Foreman and Jimmy Connors, who inspire support not because of all they have achieved over the years, but in spite of it. Suddenly, in early middle age, both are born again as underdogs; suddenly, the perennial champions are overweight, out-of-breath, underestimated long shots competing for the hell of it. Time is no longer on their side...
...spite of the presumption that the fundamentalists were behind the killing, some Algerians speculated that factions inside the army could have been nervous about Boudiaf's announced intention to investigate and punish high-level corruption. Others thought members of the National Liberation Front, the socialist party overthrown by the army, might have ordered the assassination...
...spite of the conflict, Cambridge will offer a warm welcome to the Danish visiting undergraduate when he arrives next fall, said Walsh. He said that he assured a Danish TV reporter that "we're not hostile to the Prince...
...robber-baron wages to mere managers. The medical system offered first-class care to most citizens while turning physicians into millionaires. The Social Security fund distributed inflation-indexed payments to the elderly, regardless of need. No new weapon was too costly for the military. The civilian space program, in spite of some setbacks, was dazzling. The farms produced more food than the people could possibly consume. Best of all, these and many other benefits were provided or subsidized by the government at far less than their overall cost. The nation had problems -- poverty, homelessness, drugs, declining cities...