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...reason for choosing ceramics over any other artistic medium or any other lifestyle is remarkable in that—as far as he explained—there really wasn’t one. At that age, he had no great love for or experience in the art of working clay...
...third game followed the precedent set by the first two, with the Crimson taking a slight advantage, but the Pride recovered with a kill to go up, 16-15. The two teams then exchanged points until Pride swingman Clay Spiegel reeled off two consecutive service aces to break open the game...
...January 2001, Lay wrote to Clay Johnson, the White House personnel director, with a list of some eight candidates to be considered for presidential appointments. And Bush duly named two of Lay's picks to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which oversees the nation's electricity and gas markets. Since they are where Enron made most of its money, this...
...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...
...would become Muhammad Ali," says Smith. Mann kept Ali's story at manageable length by focusing only on the civil rights and Vietnam years, when Ali "occupied his most profound importance." Mann's final screenplay, written with Eric Roth, begins in 1964, when the young Cassius Clay beats Sonny Liston out of the world heavyweight championship. Fresh off his victory, he publicly and unapologetically announces his devotion to the Nation of Islam - a black Muslim group that white America at the time considered a serious, militant threat - and takes an Arabic name. He's stripped of his title...