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...made the decision to take him off life support. Though it ripped at my heart, the decision was not hard. He had suffered enough, and to live the remainder of his life as a sickly man would have been worse than death for my dad. He was a fighter until...
...ended when the director refused to share creative control of the film. In 1992 Howard Bingham, Ali's longtime confidant and photographer, and Lonnie Ali, his fourth wife and business partner, hooked up with producer Paul Ardaji. A friend and former advertising executive, Ardaji optioned the rights to the fighter's life, and the project eventually landed at Sony. The Alis maintained contractual control over the movie's basic story and met with all five writers (including Mann) who would work on the screenplay...
There you are, Mike Tyson. You’re a fighter, you’re wearing boxing gloves, and the person across from you looks very angry. So you attack. It’s only later that you realize it’s your lovely wife, Robin Givens. You get the feeling this has happened before...and, there you are, dropping $45,000 in a settlement. What the hell just happened...
...Journal and the CIA--and demanded that the U.S. release the former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan Abdul Salam Zaeef and the Pakistanis it is holding at its base in Cuba's Guantanamo Bay on suspicion of terrorist links. The note also insisted that the U.S. deliver the F-16 fighter aircraft it had sold Pakistan before imposing sanctions on the country in 1990 because of its nuclear-weapons program. Kidnapperguy, it seems, hadn't done his homework: the conflict had been resolved by a refund almost three years...
...growing involvement with radical Islam drew him to London, he was unable to follow his fellow extremists to al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan. Although investigators say the by-now-unemployed Cherifi methodically liquidated family accounts to finance that trip, health problems posed by diabetes derailed his candidacy as a fighter. Police suspect Islamist leaders in London urged Cherifi to dedicate himself instead to vital covert logistics work in Paris - a role more securely assumed without the conspicuous Afghan link - providing money, documents, safe houses and go-between services for members of newly established European cells...