American Drew

It's pants, but I'm glued to Andre's hair
The Independent - London; 1/4/2010; 882 words; ...extraordinarily awful hairstyle. Andre was in the American wrestling world, a universe away from the town halls of English wrestling. The American version is all bells and whistles, in...hour of viewing with a Hulk Hogan bio. I drew the line there however - I had to start...

Planet soccer
The Irish Times; 1/4/2010; 920 words; ...place. Man, we don't want your soccer. There's no way Americans are going to buy the idea of 90 minutes of running around without...is football." - Hearts manager Csaba Laszlo, whose side drew 1-1 with Hearts yesterday, on how Scots have their priorities...

Holyfield and Botha to fight in Uganda
AP Online; 1/3/2010; 796 words; ...decision to Nikolai Valuev a year ago. The 47-year-old American, also a former cruiserweight champion, believes a victory...Holmes, lost two of his three contests with Riddick Bowe, drew with and then lost to Lennox Lewis and had a win-lose-draw...

Curley's People ; Three generations after James Michael Curley reshaped Boston politics, we - and our leaders - are still living with the consequences
The Boston Globe; 1/3/2010; 2300 words; ...celebrated James Cagney's pluck, and so on. The documentaries drew their strength from the surprising depth of the connection between...dedicate themselves to pushing back. He attacked rival Irish-American politicians for kowtowing to the Yankees or, worse, the British...

Reading the Russians ; Q&A; Elif Batuman's fresh look at a forbidding body of literature
The Boston Globe; 1/3/2010; 1260 words; ...Batuman currently teaches at Stanford University. A Turkish- American who was born in New Jersey and lives in San Francisco, she...Istanbul, where she was traveling. IDEAS: What initially drew you to the study of Russian literature? BATUMAN: The book...