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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...around the boxing ring, all the way out to the edges of the paper, the 59-year-old artist formerly known as Cassius Clay taps away with his black marker, making hundreds of dots, each representing one spectator. "Thrilla in Manila," he says, struggling to speak, in a low, gravelly whisper. "These are the people." He often draws these pictures, re-creating his glorious fights. Making the dots keeps him busy for hours and helps maintain his motor skills, which have been diminished by the Parkinson's he has suffered from for two decades. But his mind and sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lord of the Ring | 2/13/2002 | See Source »

...never serious about education to begin with.” Many students, from painters to pianists, leave Harvard to pursue careers in non-academic areas, but does this justify his charge that their only interest in attending Harvard in the first place was to simply mold clay or play the cello? We doubt this letter would have found its way to The Crimson if instead it were a Bill Gates-type who withdrew. We detect a healthy level of anti-athlete prejudice...

Author: By Nick Lenicheck and Brad R. Sohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Hockey Player’s Motives Mischaracterized | 12/4/2001 | See Source »

...It’s one of the first times that a study has provided data about how information from multiple distinct olfactory receptors are integrated,” HMS Professor of Neurobiology R. Clay Reid said...

Author: By Jonathan H. Esensten, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Scientists Listen In as Nose Talks to Brain | 11/30/2001 | See Source »

...Rodin and Philbrick are the future of Crimson sailing, the present is led by Doyle, All-American junior Clay Bischoff, and Gill, all of whom will leave at noon today to represent Harvard at Singlehanded Nationals at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va. this weekend...

Author: By Alan G. Ginsberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sailing Racks Up National Championships | 11/15/2001 | See Source »

...Clay is a very hard worker,” Doyle says. “We have similar styles [in that] we’re very analytical about the shifts in the wind and dealing with all the little small changes, and we’re similar size, so we really complement each other...

Author: By Alan G. Ginsberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sailing Racks Up National Championships | 11/15/2001 | See Source »

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