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The Big Fight: When Bernadette McAliskey attended ‘The Fight of the Century’ and met Muhammad Ali
In his classic work, Loser and Still Champion, Budd Schulberg opens the chapter concerning the first Ali–Frazier bout at ...
The night Bernadette Devlin had dinner with Muhammad Ali before his 1972 Croke Park fight
In the build up to his bout at Croke Park in July 1972, 'the Greatest' invited Bernadette Devlin, then an outspoken MP, for ...
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Soaking up the Jersey Shore sun: Sheryl Crow set to headline Basie Summer Gala
The nine-time Grammy Award-winner is set to headline the Count Basie Center for the Arts Summer Gala in June. The country rock singer-songwriter is best-known for hits including "All I Wanna Do ...
London Evening Standard23d
Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: a beautifully written triumph
Her fourth novel, Dream Count, deals beautifully with the fallibility of perception. It is told from the perspectives of four connected women — travel writer Chia, who grew up in Nigeria but ...
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On This Day in 1973, Bruce Springsteen Made a Heart-Stopping Entry Into the Music Business—Literally
In addition to discovering Springsteen, Hammond launched the careers of Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Pete Seeger, and Aretha Franklin. Frankly ...
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Aims to ‘Write a Wrong’ in ‘Dream Count’
DREAM COUNT, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie “Dream Count,” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s first novel in a dozen years, is dreamy indeed: an accumulation of scenes and sensations, cloudlike in ...