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SKILLS WITHOUT SPITE

HE recent Steve Bunce piece on Muhammad Ali’s venture to the Soviet Union in the late 1970s (July 30 issue) brought to mind an exhibition I was fortunate to witness while travelling in India in 1980. On a dry, dusty Sunday afternoon, a full house

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