September 2011
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an oral history of the '87 fight between hagler &...
The 1980s were a golden age for the welterweight and middleweight divisions of boxing. The era was headlined by four all-time greats: Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Thomas Hearns, and Roberto Duran. Between 1980 and 1985, each of them fought all the others, except for Hagler and Leonard. When they finally clashed in 1987, it was the climax of that extraordinary series — not literally...
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"My remembrance of Ped" - Anna from True Thai... →
I submitted a guest op-ed to the Star Tribune last week after reading Gail Rosenblum’s column in which she defended the Senser family’s legal stonewalling. The Star Tribune never responded to my submission, so I am publishing it here in my blog. — — — Anousone “Ped” Phanthavong was a dear friend and valued coworker of mine. We opened our restaurant, True Thai, in...
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this is america now →
“Silly me. I thought flying on 9/11 would be easy. I figured most people would choose not to fly that day so lines would be short, planes would be lightly filled and though security might be ratcheted up, we’d all feel safer knowing we had come a long way since that dreadful Tuesday morning 10 years ago.
But then armed officers stormed my plane, threw me in handcuffs and locked me...
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