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Sugar Ray Leonard and his entourage swept across the Harvard campus yesterday, spreading the retired champion boxer's message of supreme faith in individual effort, education, and the American Dream...
...boxer stood in front of the dilapidated jungle scenery from an undergraduate Gilbert and Sullivan production and received a series of ovations from the crowd of about 150 students and local residents. In the middle of answering one question, Leonard was interrupted by Brother Blue, a popular Cambridge story teller and street performer...
DIED. Kim Duk Koo, 23, bruising South Korean lightweight boxer whose 17-1-1 record earned him the World Boxing Association's No. 1 contender ranking; of a brain hemorrhage suffered in a title fight with Ray ("Boom Boom") Mancini; in-Las Vegas (see SPORT...
...declared legally dead in Las Vegas last night, and the comatose boxer's mother said his organs would soon be transplanted "so that another person can live...
DIED. Howard Sackler, 52, writer-director whose play The Great White Hope, based on the life of black Boxer Jack Johnson, won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize; of pulmonary thrombosis; in Ibiza, Spain. In his historical dramas, Sackler fashioned grand canvases on which self-determined men clashed against their environment. He was also a poet, screenwriter (who contributed to Jaws, then wrote Jaws 2), and director for Caedmon Records, responsible for putting the words of such writers as Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll and James Joyce onto vinyl...