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Midway through the fifth round, the man sitting next to me in Boston Garden began to shout, "Where's Ali? Where is Ali?" And that was the real question Thursday night when Muhammad Ali forgot to fight, and lost his chance to regain the heavyweight title...

Author: By Nevin I. Shalit, | Title: Where Was Ali? | 10/4/1980 | See Source »

...forgot what was on my mind...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Gobble, Gobble | 9/26/1980 | See Source »

...before, it now suffered; the power of the Kennedy backers was the most impressive on a grand scale. The only person in the hall able even to dampen the spirits of the demonstrators was the orchestra vocalist, a bald, leather-jacketed hybrid of Johnny Rotten and Guy Lombardo who forgot the words to "If I Had a Hammer," an error that by all accounts was quite welcome. In the end, it was almost anti-climactic that Kennedy won his platform battle; his real fight, with the party, with the bitterness of a year-long campaign that led nowhere slowly...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Democracy in America | 8/15/1980 | See Source »

...Placement test in chemistry, the first of several weeding out processes that the University uses to separate the sheep from the goats. And after a summer when you assuredly forgot everything you ever learned in high school. Masochism, Cambridge style...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: The Week Gets Weaker | 8/15/1980 | See Source »

...uncertain wandering, the last hours in a hospital far from Tehran. Those images make it hard to assess history's ultimate verdict. "He ruled as a lion and a fox," concludes Professor James Bill, an Iran specialist at the University of Texas, "but in the process he forgot the needs of his people. He insulated and isolated himself from them, and in the end failed to build the political institutions and social trust they needed." He steered his country into a revolution, only to find that, as it gathered force, his people decided that they would no longer allow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Emperor Who Died an Exile | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

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