do not cry for leila or for him, but drink the red wine and grow your love doublely, one for the ruby in the cup, the other for its rouge on your cheek. bombs rape the eyes of the sleeping assyrian gods. as if it were only a sand box, a few worthless grains of sand. i'll cut for you the last swathe of blue from the sky, sever my and if you'll let me, but for 5 minutes more, leave me to sleep without the knowledge of war. a kanun weeps near the funeral of music. having been occupied, notes mourn for the loss of their song. i am for a concert of horses, the origin of gazelle leapt up from the heart of al gubungi. have you made small steps into the desert within us or listened for the gutterals longed deep within our throats, you would have come bearing gifts. i have nothing in red that i would not abide in green. el batanabi wrote the heart of our silken tanab, what need have we for you? no poem has ever enough red but that its blood might river beneath the veins of its people. beneath the desert sun, one man by one man by one man breathes six. thousands of tons wrung sonorous from the

frazier would train his daughter jackie to challenge ali's daughter leila. leila won. another boxing best. but by then in 2001, boxing was pretty much done. from single champions everybody knew, to an ounce of the title holders today most people can't remember. frazier lamented passing of an era. >> they're making our girls men. that's what they're doing with the men. making girls of them. >> neil: how are they doing that? >> cutting down the roles. scored 15 joys -- [ inaudible >> 12 tops, sometimes ten. >> 15 rounds. better men. we're smarter, better men. why cut them down to make them look like they can't do the job? >> neil: in the end, always the gladiator looking for more time in the ring. no shortcuts, no excuses, no time for nonsense. less time for words. save these today from the man who forever taunted him in life. muhammad ali offering this simple praise for smokin' joe in death. "the world has lost a great champion. i will always remember joe with respect and admiration." ali is not alone. not by a boxing longshot.

see if it helps us it will be harder without the riyadh but we are still aiming for a win meanwhile leila are also experiencing some problems with their squad with a midfielder a great handful backmarker washer injury we're aware their flight to moscow was delayed and the nasty eaves had to cancel their training session it is car when combined with a home defeat for third place dobson's poor against inter milan what propelled the russian side into the knockout round. despite the fact that we have managed to commission only one champions league win in twelve measures on the road to sky are still going to face a tough test in their last group at home as cisco's manager will have to do without five key players because they bowed out of. moscow region. staying with a champions league match soon r.t. will move a step closer to qualification for the knockout stages of the convent think at old trafford their lead group say from their tonight's opponents only on goal difference victory move united record it's clear of the portuguese side with only one game to play. selection problems though in th

i guess it's inevitable if my three other friends, my three ladies, loretta and angela bassett and leila, i think they're all in. i just have to -- i am just settling down, getting this under my belt. and once i finish with this, i'm not going to say no. >> houston says it will be some time before we'll know if the movie comeback will happen or not. >>> well, one lucky "the wizard of oz" fan will soon be able to slip her feet into movie history. a pair of ruby red slippers from the 1939 classic film are heading to the auction block next month in new york. they were unveiled today in l.a., and are expected to be sold for upwards of $3 million. that's 1.5 per shoe pad. four pairs of ruby slippers survived production. one is at the smithsonian here. one was stolen from the judy garland museum in '06, and another pair is in private hands, or feet. >>> so how long can you keep a secret? the one thing you don't want to forget about after running in a marathon, and prove that you're never know what you're in for when you buy a used vehicle. >> those are just some of the topics for discussion to

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