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Sugar Ray Leonard and his entourage swept across the Harvard campus yesterday, spreading the retired champion boxer's message of supreme faith in individual effort, education, and the American Dream...
...series of public appearances and meetings with top-ranking University officials, Leonard colorfully explained his credo: "We can all be somebody; we can make a mark on society--not just a pencil mark, but with magic marker, so it stays...
Sitting casually amid a clutter of television cameras, microphones and cables during a morning press conference in the Quincy House Senior Common Room, Leonard jokingly described his private meeting with President Bok: "I requested from him a scholarship...
...Leonard, who retired last month at the age of 26 as uncontested welterweight champion of the world, toured the University as the guest of the Harvard Foundation, the administration's race-relations agency...
...each stop during the day, he emphasized the need to respect minorities for their accomplishments and work toward progress through activities such as scholarship and athletics. The world of Sugar Ray Leonard, he said, referring to himself frequently in the third person, has been a fair and rewarding place. "We are all given God's gift of some talent," he told one audience at Radcliffe's Agassiz Theater, "mine just happens to be beating up on people...