Word: firpo
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...majority of her employment with Jackson and married her second husband, Joseph Kisembo, in December 2008. There were other, almost Svengali-like rumors. "I hear some odd things about her - this woman in the background with all of this power, flexing her muscles," says former Jackson spiritual adviser Firpo Carr. "That's not the Grace I know. Unless she has this other secret life I don't know about," says Carr. "She is one of the humblest people I have been around...
...latest of the last of the big fights, Marvin Hagler and Tommy Hearns argued vehemently for and against boxing, proving both positions. It was horrible and magnificent. The first round is being called the best ever, though there have been a few fights before and Dempsey-Firpo was well received in 1923. Even retreating, Hearns slugged boldly. Hagler was a monster. He swears, "I love the boxing game like a little boy," though this was far from the effect. "I love the smell," he says, even of his own blood, diluting his sweat like a hemorrhage in a sink, rendering...
Luraghi was born and raised in Turin, Italy, and received his Ph.D from La Sapienza in Rome. He has pursued several post-doctoral fellowships with the Foundation Luigi Firpo, the University of Turin and the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung fellowship...