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BORN. To Larry Holmes, 32, world heavyweight boxing champion who calls himself "the world's baddest heavyweight," and Diane Holmes, 28: their fifth child, first son; in Easton, Pa. Name: Larry Jr. Weight...
...even tries to talk like him," says Angelo Dundee, "but he can't." As Arcel puts it, "He has lived in the shadow of Muhammad Ali's mouth." When not trying to sound like Ali, Holmes sounds kinder. In his guttural, good-humored speech, he declares, "I'm the baddest thing since peanut butter and jelly," and laughs lightly. Then he stops laughing. "Earnie Shavers and Renaldo Snipes may have knocked me down, but I got up and took care of business. I'm proud. A lot of people want to know if I'm in the tank for this...
...worst thing of all about the coliseum is not the lans Oh no. The biggest baddest dream for an opposing team that enters Dane Country is that it's the stomping ground of the University of Wisconsin Hockey team. The team that has made it to the national semifinals six times in the last 12 years. A team that won the national championships in 1973 1977 and 1981. A team that this year is 32 10 Loverall and alter its defeat of North Dakota in the western Collegiate Hockey Association finals number one in the country...
...with Jack and Deedee Callahan, a permanently sloshed American couple who run guns in a cutter disguised as a shrimp boat. This work is not so easy or pleasant as it once was. Sizing up Pablo, his new crewman, Jack says, "I used to like it when the baddest thing around these parts was me. These days I'm just another innocent abroad." The boat, guns and Pablo are destined for Tecan...
When the biggest and baddest at the Kennedy School of Government lumber into a seminar room to work over a major political problem, you expect some noise--if not national media chatter or awed applause from Washington, then at least the venerable murmurs of academe. If the heavyweights square off against an issue as imposing as the transition of presidents, you might even look for Howard Cosell at ringside, narrating the blow by blow. But the presidential transition is just the problem that Institute of Politics (IOP) director Jonathan Moore, K-School professor Ernest R. May and several of their...