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MEXICO CITY, - Bullfighter Karla de los Angeles was tossed over a bull's head and gored twice Sunday as she went in for the kill at Mexico City's famous Plaza Mexico. De los Angeles suffered 5-inch gashes on her right thigh and left buttock when the bull, named Gamusino, tossed her over his head and pierced her with his horns at Monumental Plaza Mexico, the country's largest bullfighting ring. The 1,100-pound bull also gored assistant Federico Dominguez as he tried to help de los Angeles out of the ring. De los Angeles is a novillera, an aspiring bullfighter who has...

Spanish banderillero Pedro Muriel is gored by a bull during a bullfight

He was killed by al-Qaida terrorists in the small town of Siniyah, while he was moving into position to provide fire support for fellow paratroopers.

LA GLORIA — David Renk, the only American bullfighter to confirm his status as a matador at the Plaza Mexico in Mexico City, was seriously injured Sunday while performing at the Santa Maria Bullring. Renk, 42, was fighting a 1,000-pound bull at the bloodless bullfight at about 5 p.m. when a bull pinned him to the ground, cracking seven ribs and collapsing one lung. The other lung was working at only 30 percent capacity when he was rushed to Starr County Memorial Hospital in Rio Grande City, then to Valley Baptist Medical Center in Harlingen, where he remained Monday night....

Empty jargon is put to the sword by new program Political speeches and corporate reports may never be the same again. A computer program that sifts the bull from business jargon and exposes politicians' empty rhetoric has been developed by management consultants. Called Bullfighter, the jargon buster was developed by Deloitte Consulting after it noticed that Enron's documents became more indecipherable as it slid further towards bankruptcy. Brian Fugere, a partner at Deloitte Consulting, said the firm came up with Bullfighter because "we've had it with repurposable, value-added knowledge capital and robust, leveragable mindshare". In testing Bullfighter, Mr Fugere said,...