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Gladiators, once criminals and slaves but later professional warriors, fought one another to the crowds’ cries of Jugula!
"For the Senate and the Roman People"--that's what gladiators used to say.
Behind the stage was the Gladiators’ Barracks, where 63 skeletons were found.
But even if Americans are no lazier in the aggregate than they were 40 years ago, the rise of "extreme sports" underscores a trend that's a bit different and more interesting than the one Time is promoting: Namely, that a small elite is engaging in pathologically daring leisure activities requiring unprecedented physical fitness, while the rest of us are getting fat on chips and beer while we watch these gladiators on ESPN.
He argues that "New York needs mediators, not gladiators."