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Someone called him the Elvis of sport because he was a crossover pioneer, sexy and gorgeous, who forced the public to rethink its view of his form of entertainment. But there was more to Muhammad Ali than his amazing cunning in the ring; more than his reputation as the most charming showboater in boxing history, with an impish rhyming wit that had the power of both butterfly and bee. As Spike Lee says of Ali in the enthralling new documentary When We Were Kings, "He fused politics and sport...
JACK LALANNE, 82; SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIFORNIA; Fitness Pioneer...
DIED. JOSEPH QUINLAN, 71, pioneer of the right-to-die movement who led a successful legal crusade to allow his adopted daughter Karen Ann Quinlan to "die with dignity" after she slipped into a coma in 1975; of cancer; in Wantage, New Jersey...
Price focused on American politics and was a pioneer in integrating statistics with political analysis. He taught in the Government Department for more than 30 years, authored five books on American voting patterns and served on the editorial board of The American Political Science Association...
...little Norma Desmondish, and the Artist has been suffering from dwindling sales for almost a decade. Purple Rain (1984) sold 13 million copies; his last album, Chaos and Disorder (1996), didn't even sell 100,000. But this week the performer who defined '80s glam-pop and helped pioneer rock-funk fusion is attempting a comeback. Having extricated himself from his contract with Warner Bros. Records (a pact he so despised he started writing slave on his cheek), the Artist is releasing a triple CD titled Emancipation, the first in his new deal with EMI. While the album's overall...