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...There are paramedics and an ambulance waiting, and bouts are stopped if there is too much blood. "The bottom line is that all of these guys have to go back to the office the next day," Lacey says. There's been one knockout - a lawyer named Paul "Mad Manx" Beckett - in 280 rounds. Few egos are badly bruised, though, because no winners are named. "It's intense enough without that," says Paul Damonte, 39, a money broker...
...like Buddha," explains Tan. Tan is the only Singaporean I know who speaks English with a French accent, a result of his 25-year tenure as the press attach? for the French embassy in Singapore. (Tan was also the first person to translate the works of Samuel Beckett and Romanian Marin Sorescu into Chinese, achievements that earned him the Chevalier de l'Ordre award from France and the Sorescu International Poetry Prize from Romania...
DIED. LUCIANO BERIO, 77, experimental Italian composer; in Rome. Utilizing everything from electronic sounds to the spoken word, he created an innovative body of work that often divided critics. His 1968 Sinfonia, which he conducted for the New York Philharmonic, featured passages from Beckett and Joyce, musical quotations from Mahler and Stravinsky, student graffiti and the Swingle Singers to create what TIME praised as a "new kind of dramaturgy...
...comparison, Harvard ace Ben Crockett ’02 was the top prospect the Ivy League had seen in almost a decade, and he drew a handful of scouts to each of his contests last season. Some publications called Beckett the best high school pitcher ever...
...When Beckett was there, there would be 30-40 scouts,” Hendricks says. “It was just a great experience...