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The slow-motion instant replay of a pair of 150-kg (330-pound) sumo champions hurling each other across the ring with an utchari backward-pivot throw can be sheer poetry in motion.
They will have done good work if they only bring out two English champions that will hold the ground against them and the foreigners too.
The president champions a touchy-feely "national conversation" on race, defenders of the Confederacy just want to tell their side of the story, school officials worry about offending the community, and Ed Ball, inspired by the confirmation of shared blood, wants to use his book profits to fund interracial dialogue.
For politicians, sugar became "an eminently taxable commodity," and "acquired many champions in the press, in the medical journals, in the Foreign Office, and in Parliament."
I'm glad you're putting Magnolia on your 10-best list, because it needs champions; it seems to me so poignantly vulnerable to ridicule.