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...eight years since George Foreman lost a twelve-round decision to Jimmy Young in Puerto Rico and moments thereafter found the Lord. There were those who blamed the former heavyweight champion's immediate change of plans --he gave up boxing--on hallucinations brought on by heat prostration. But Foreman said that, to his mind, an oppressively hot night in San Juan was one thing, a call from God something else, and he knew the difference. Off came the gloves...
After that, Foreman went back to Texas, state of his birth, on a self- assigned mission to spread the Word. This he did on street corners in Houston, as well as in any flyblown chapel of bedrock fundamentalism that would hear him out. Now and then, you would catch him in the papers (requiem for a heavyweight, that sort of thing), but for the most part the fighter kept his head down. Four years ago, he erected the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, twelve pews in a little metal prefabricated building on an acre of Houston ground. The church...
There is something incredibly pat and wonderfully sappy about the George Foreman story, a sort of factual mockery of the best-known work of Sylvester Stallone. This guy was bad, as he himself put it. He kept a lion and a tiger because they were bad. He had 47 fights and knocked out 42 men. He took the world title by half killing Joe Frazier in 1973 and then lost it the next year in Zaire to Muhammad Ali, who could not have been brought down that night by a tank. "I be alright when the swelling goes down," Foreman...
...four women and two men walked silently to their red leather armchairs in Room 110 of the Federal District Court Building in lower Manhattan. As dozens of reporters and spectators listened intently, the clerk asked Jury Foreman Richard Zug, an IBM computer specialist, if the panel had come to a decision. "We have," replied Zug. Reading carefully from the verdict form, Zug announced, "On actual malice: to the question, Has the plaintiff proved by clear and convincing evidence that a person or persons at Time Inc. knew that the defamatory statement was false or had serious doubts to its truth...
...Loatch also said that she and one other juror initially felt that TIME should be found to have acted with malice, but Foreman Zug argued that Halevy must have believed the appendix contained the disputed information. "We did not think he would have said it if he were not 100% certain," said Burdick. "He knew it could be checked the next morning by everyone in Israel who had access to that report." Ultimately, according to De Loatch, the jury believed that Halevy "wasn't actually out to get Sharon. He didn't make up the story, and he actually believed...