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Simon Aouad
Simon Aouad is a former police officer. He is scheduled to fight Rodney King in a Celebrity Boxing Federation main event Friday, September 11, 2009. Find more Simon Aouad news and information here.
Remember that $500 million program for small businesses Goldman Sachs announced along with its apology earlier this week? It was splashed on C1 of The Wall Street Journal and A1 of The New York Times, which wrote that "the bank said Tuesday that it would spend $500 million — or about 3 percent of the $16.7 billion it...
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Gingrich just wants everyone to all just get along:
“If we get into a cycle where there are Tea Parties and there are conservative third-party candidates we will make [Nancy] Pelosi speaker for life,” Gingrich told POLITICO in an interview Thursday, calling the practice “totally destructive.”
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From politics.nashvillepost.com
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Rodney King says boxing is helping him stay sober. King, whose 1991 video taped beating by Los Angeles police helped spark South Central riots a year later, is among a group of D-list celebrities barnstorming the country as part to the Celebrity Boxing Federation.
From mercurynews.com
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- Rodney King says boxing is keeping him sober (whdh.com)
Cop brutality figure Rodney King turns celeb boxer King in the ring By ORyan Johnson / Herald Exclusive Sunday, November 1, 2009 Rodney King, the famed police punching bag whose beating caught on tape put a bulls eye on cops and eventually led to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, has turned celebrity boxer and says hes aching for a rematch with one of the members of L.A.s finest who viciously pummeled him in March 1991. I was supposed to...
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From freerepublic.com
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Controversial former Major League Baseball outfielder and designated hitter Jose Canseco is on the card for an upcoming Celebrity Boxing match in Springfield, Mass. After retiring from baseball in 2001 Canseco boxed twice and fought mixed martial arts once....
From sportsblog.projo.com
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- Jose Canseco and Rodney King enter the ring (media-newswire.com)
In reply to The Embattled Librarian of Cheshire:
While I am not taking a position on the book, I will say this. The decision to include this particular book is tremendously insensitive to the remaining survivor where that survivor is asking the library not to carry the book. One would think people would be neighborly and respect his wishes. Common decency comes to mind.
Censorship has nothing to do with this issue except to the extent it can...
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From lisnews.org
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Trevor D & Emily talk with Rodney King, who became a household name in 1991 when he was beaten by the LAPD during a traffic stop!!!!
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From xl93.com
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Krout v. Sawdy, No. 08-2781 (8th Cir. Oct. 6, 2009) (here): Once [the motorist] was on the ground and no longer resisting, several patrons and employees of the Waffle House witnessed two officers assault him. Harriet Stone witnessed one officer knee Rylee in the lower back four to six times while he was not moving, and saw another officer punch...
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From federalism.typepad.com
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by Mark Silva That one Republican vote on the health-care bill that cleared the Senate Finance Committee this week is nothing for Democrats to write home about, the GOP chairman says. "One Republican vote out of 40 in the Senate...
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From weblogs.chicagotribune.com
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The motorist whose 1991 video taped beating by Los Angeles police helped spark South Central riots a year later has agreed to box at a Springfield celebrity boxing exhibition.
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