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...more like a man from the future. While his white opponents stood and slugged in the style of the bare-knuckle era, he weaved the way Muhammad Ali would later do. Outside the ring, the handsome, savvy and charismatic Johnson prefigured today's celebrity athletes (and polarizing black stars like Kobe Bryant and Mike Tyson). He wore tailored suits, drove custom cars and slept with many women, white women in particular. His boxing wins drew death threats and caused riots, but it was his sex life that most outraged whites, and many blacks. In 1913 he was tried under...
Some Barkett enthusiasts even spelled her name in teal capital letters on their bare chests...
...Koppes, a former CalPERS general counsel, delivered a blunt message. "Your friends think you're unfocused and too political," Koppes said. "They say you're beginning to damage the corporate-governance movement." CalPERS president Sean Harrigan, a grocery workers' union boss and an architect of the institutional investor's bare-knuckle strategy, got a more pointed message two weeks ago from the state personnel board he represented at CalPERS: it replaced him with Republican real estate developer Ronald Alvarado...
...more to the Mayan temples of his youthful travels. Their $A6 million colonnade, due to open late next year, has been inspired by the Court of a Thousand Columns at Yucatan. In the meantime, we have the modest and lovely Utzon Room, which reveals his original vaulted ceiling, the bare bones of his genius. The room has also been designed to be viewed from outside, and at night Utzon's 14-m tapestry, inspired by Bach's Hamburg Symphonies, reads like a bejewelled sheet of music. It might not be the climax audiences were after; for this, they must wait...
...Everyone has different tastes,” she said, leaning over a bare countertop by the espresso machine. “I’m from Spain. I have a different idea of coffee houses...