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Apart from, “I float like a but-terfly, sting like a bee,” the most distinctive, memorable

phrase uttered by Muhammad Ali has to be: “I am the greatest, the greatest of all time!”

Floyd Patterson’s thoughts on that boast: “He’s always saying he’s the greatest, but he never finishes that statement. If you’re patient and listen to him long enough, you can fill in the blank.”

If you check with Sports Illustrat-ed, you’ll discover Ali, the boxing icon, has been their cover subject 37 times. Only Michael Jordon has been on the cover more often, 47 times.

Most recently, General Mills hon-ored Ali by placing him on boxes of

Wheaties cereal. Does he deserve the recognition? Sure he does. You’d have to be an ignoramus not to realize how glorious a boxer he was. He deserves every praise for his skills in the ring and the fun character he created. Over his illustrious career, he was like a comic book super hero. Every rhyme, every amusing utterance became fod-der for the press.

When reaching the twilight of their years, athletes, like statesmen, attain a certain degree of sanctity. All mis-takes are forgotten, while the exploits are exaggerated. Case in point, the in-scription on the current Wheaties’ ce-real box claims Ali, “is the Greatest, an Ambassador of Sportsmanship.”

Whoa, we’ve got to draw the line somewhere. We could count on one hand the number of times Ali ex-

hibited that trait. Yes, he is legend-ary, and the ex-champion’s life will become folkloric, much the same as Davy Crockett. Aside from killing a bear when he was only three, Ali has accomplished much. As time passes his exploits will be extolled and likely overblown. It’s up to the boxing histo-rians to keep things real.

Tennis star, James Courier Jr., him-self a good sport, once said, “Sports-manship is when a guy walks off the court and you really can’t tell whether he won or lost. He carries himself with pride either way.”

Dartmouth College’s Athletic Di-rector Harry Sheehy adds: “It is your response to winning and losing that makes you a winner or a loser.”

Good sportsmanship is when you see teammates, opponents, coaches,

and officials treating each other with respect. Kids learn good sportsman-ship from the adults in their lives, especially from parents and coaches. When they see adults behaving in a sportsmanlike manner, they learn the real winner in a sporting match is the one who knows how to behave with dignity. Whether they win or lose.

Everyone knows it’s suicide to poke fun at the revered. Some people are so well liked, they become untouchable. They get a free pass even when being a jerk. This article ignores common sense and instead is dedicated to all the guys who ended up playing second fiddle to the great Ali, guys like Floyd Patterson, Joe Frazier, Kenny Norton, George Foreman, Larry Holmes, et ce-

tera. Who do you blame for over-hyping

an athlete? The sports networks? They’re certainly known for doing whatever’s necessary to keep their ratings high. That’s why they key-in on the most colorful, the “look at me, aren’t I special” people in their broadcast. Why? Because the Dennis Rodmans, Money Mayweathers and Ochocincos of the world do a great job of promoting and at the same time put the fans in the seats.

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Even the Beatles arranged for a photo op at Ali’s training camp.

Ali points to a headline showing the number of people that attended an anti-Vietnam war rally.


be elected Mayor of Los Angeles? Could he ever earn the NBA’s Good Sportmanship award? We know that’s never going to hap-pen. But still, everyone comes to see him play because they know he’ll be lighting up the scoreboard.

Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. (his slave name) was 18 years-old and fresh off his light-heavyweight gold medal performance at the Rome Olympics when he was refused service by a waitress at a “whites-only” res-taurant in his native Louisville, Kentucky. Clay found that despite his new acclaim, he was not immune to the racism that was so prevalent at the time. After that incident and a scuffle with some white boys, the dis-gusted Clay threw his Olympic gold medal into the Ohio River.

Unable to skirt controversy, Clay, aka “the Louisville Lip” then faced a 30 year-old small town police chief in his first pro-fessional fight. The bull dog police chief, Tunney Hunsaker, was a veteran of 25 pro-fessional fights. After working over Hunsa-

ker’s eyes for six rounds, they were nearly swollen shut. Hunsaker never made it into the Pro Boxing Hall of Fame, but he was inducted into the Law Enforce-ment Hall of Fame.

In 1964, Clay announced his name change to Cassius X, then Muhammad X, then Muhammad Ali after defeating Sonny Liston to win the world heavyweight title.

On November 22, 1965, Floyd Patterson, the former Heavyweight Champ, became Ali’s victim #22. In order to gain support or perhaps ingratiate himself to fellow Blacks, Ali kept referring to Patterson as “an Uncle Tom” and “the White man’s champ.”

In their match, Ali, who was three inches taller and outweighed Patterson by 15 pounds, stated before the match he wanted Patterson to suffer. Almost every time Ali hit Patterson, he taunted him. The crowd ended up booing Ali and felt he had treated the ex-champ with cruelty and disrespect.

Interviewed after the fight, ex-champion Joe Louis said: “He (Ali) could have knocked Patterson out whenever he wanted, but let’s face it, Clay is selfish and cruel.”

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Ali had an uncanny talent for hyp-ing fights and in turn build his celebri-ty status. Before each bout, the “Fight-ing Prophet” would name the round in which his opponent was to be retired and this worked for some time.

Earnie Shavers, one of the top heavyweights of that era, once said, “Ali was something, he knew how to con you in a million different ways.”

He not only had the cunning, the hand and foot speed, the impeccable skills, he had the ideal body type with his 80 inch arm reach and 6’3” stature.

Over a career that lasted 21 years, his KO ratio was 60.66% despite the fact he fought only one boxer with a losing record. In 61 fights, 37 of his op-ponents failed to go the distance.

His personal life became a whirl-wind of fast women, the birthing of children, fancy cars, the business of being a conscientious objector and the change in religions; all distractions working to derail his efforts to become the greatest ever. It’s an old axiom in Boxing; the more one wallows in their celebrity, the more lackadaisical they become in the gym.

You can forget everything else, weight gain is always the strongest indicator of a boxer’s decline. In Ali’s case, at the weigh-ins he went from 188 pounds all the way up to 236. That meant, he allowed himself to drift upwards to 250-265 pounds between each fight. As a fully mature heavy-weight, Ali’s ideal fighting weight was between 208 to 212 pounds.

With the weight gain, his strategy in the ring had to change. He started dropping his hands to rest them. He held more, introduced the “rope a dope” and like any crafty veteran be-gan to steal rounds with late flurries.

Lest we forget, over the last six years of his career, he was only a shell of his former self and when facing the likes of Trevor Berbick (12 years his junior), Leon Spinks (11 years young-er), Larry Holmes (7 years, 10 months younger), he’d spend the majority of the time either running, circling or holding.

In 1967, Ali got himself in trouble on several fronts. The courts found him guilty of draft evasion, fined him $10,000, sentenced him to five years in prison, and then had the boxing commission strip him of both his title and boxing license. Embroiled in this financial mess and fighting the convic-tion, Joe Frazier came through with some financial help. He also lobbied hard to have Ali’s license reinstated.

Frazier’s aid was forgotten when the two men signed a contract to fight on March 8, 1971. Even after the ven-ues had been sold out and well after

the fighters had received their guar-antees, the demeaning, hurtful com-ments continued. These incendiary remarks provoked the crazies to call the Frazier household with death threats or they’d get a call that said their house was going to be blown up. Understandably, Frazier felt betrayed.

At the Press Conference for his first fight with Frazier, Ali predicted a KO by the sixth round and made the fol-lowing promise, “If Joe Frazier were to beat me. I’m going to get down on my knees and crawl over to his corner, look up at him and say, ‘You are the greatest! You are the Champion of the

World!’”During that epic battle several

verbal exchanges took place. In an at-tempt to psyche Frazier out, Ali boast-ed, “You know, you are in the ring with the God.”

Frazier’s reply, “If you’re God, you are in the wrong place tonight.”

At the close of round six, Frazier made reference to Ali’s earlier boast, “I ain’t going nowhere.”

After his humiliating defeat, Ali left the ring sheepishly without fol-lowing through on the promise to crawl across the ring. People say that fight and those remarks gave Sylves-

ter Stallone the inspiration to write the screen play for the movie which turned out to be Rocky.

When discussing the top heavy-weights of all time, where does Ali (The Greatest) rank? Keep in mind the sport has been around for over 150 years. The first “World Champi-onship” took place at Farnsborough, England on April 17, 1860 between the British Champion Tom Sayers and the American champ John C. Heenan.

To be fair, we’d have to weigh, not only a person’s transcendence over fighters of his day, but over the fight-ers from all 16 divisions over the past 150 years.

Joe Louis (68-3) held the heavy-weight title for longer than anybody (11 years, 8 months, 7 days) and made more successful defenses (25).

Henry Armstrong (151-21-9 with 101 KOs) is the only boxer to hold world titles in three different weight classes simultaneously.

Sugar Ray Robinson (175-19-6-2 with 109 KOs)

lost just once in his first 123 fights to Jake LaMotta, a defeat he avenged five times in their classic rivalry. Only stoppage defeat came when he challenged Joey Maxim for the light heavyweight crown, and then was leading on points until overcome by heat so extreme it forced the replace-ment of the referee in the tenth.

San Diego’s own Archie Moore (183-24-10-1) would be in the running. He fought 168 times and was 39 years old before finally getting a shot at the world title. He took full advantage and outpointed champion Joey Maxim to take the crown. His 131 knockouts is the most by any boxer.

Featherweight Willie Pep had a record of 230-11-1 with 65 KOs and achieved tremendous success despite suffering near-fatal injuries in a plane crash. He won his first 63 bouts, then went 72-0-1 before losing again.

Julio Cesar Chavez had a ring ca-reer that lasted 25 years and his re-cord during that time, 108-6-2 (87 KOs). Chavez won his first 88 fights.

Benny Leonard won the world light-weight championship in May 1917, and retired as champion in January 1925, making him the longest-reigning light-weight champion.

A 1974 World Boxing reader poll ranked Ali as the 5th greatest heavy-weight in history. In 1975 historian Nat Loubet ranked him ninth. In 1976, John Durant, author of The Heavy-weight Champions, ranked him as the fourth greatest. After all the research, I find it’s impossible to name “The Greatest Boxer” of all time.

“float like a butterfly, sting like a bee”

Muhammad Ali I am the greatest, the greatest of all time

Ali is a honored guest at one of the honorable Elijah Muhammad rallies.

Young Cassius Clay stands in front of a chalk board predicting the round his opponent will be stopped.


1. KO of Foreman to win back the title (Oct. 30, 1974) – At the time, the 25 year-old Foreman had a record of 40-0 with 37 knockouts and was con-sidered the hardest puncher ever. He had won the title by stopping Frazier in the second round, then defended his title twice with a first-round KO of Jose Roman and second-round stop-page of Ken Norton. At 32 years of age, Ali was considered a major underdog. Out of necessity, he came up with this “Rope-a-Dope” idea where he laid on the ropes while Foreman punched himself out. His plan worked and by Round #8, Foreman a very tired fighter. As a result, Ali landed two hard shots on the exhausted fighter to knock him out and become only the second man in history to regain the heavyweight title.

2. First of the Ali vs. Frazier fights, (March 8, 1971) – Both undefeated, Ali (31-0) and Frazier (26-0) met in their prime for the heavyweight title. Fra-zier simply outworked his opponent and punctuated the big win by drop-ping Ali in the 15th round with a left hook.

3. Frazier’s corner throws in the towel (Oct. 1, 1975) – The Thrilla in Manila is considered one of the great-est heavyweight fights ever. With both fighters gasping for air, Frazier’s train-er Eddie Futch stopped the bout after the 14th. At that point Frazier couldn’t see and Ali could hardly breathe.

4. TKO of Liston to win the heavy-weight title (Feb. 25, 1964) – The brash Cassius Clay was a huge underdog and his behavior leading up to the fight caused many to think he was a nut case. But Ali thoroughly outboxed Lis-ton and even when he got liniment in his eye and unable to see for an entire round, he stalled by moving around the ring to avoid being hit. It was one of the most brilliant performances of his career against a man everyone feared.

5. Win over Cleveland Williams (Nov. 14, 1966) – Ali was two months shy of his 25th birthday when stop-ping the veteran Williams in the third round at the Astrodome. Williams, a quality fighter with a 65-5-1 record, met Ali in his prime. He was lightning fast, exceptionally accurate and his punches had significant power.

6. Knock down by Henry Cooper (June 18, 1963) – Cooper floored Ali in the fourth round with a left hook. It was the first time in his career he had

faced adversity. After getting up, he proved his mettle by stopping Cooper in the following round.

7. Win over Jerry Quarry (Oct. 26, 1970) – Quarry was one of the elite heavyweights of his day and would have likely won the title had he not come around at a time when there were guys like Ali and Frazier. Ali faced Quarry in his first fight back after refusing induction into the mili-

tary service. In that match, he put on a spectacular performance to signal he was, for certain, back in the hunt for the title.

8. Loss of title to Leon Spinks (Feb. 15, 1978) – Spinks, a 1976 Olympic gold medalist, came into the fight with just a 6-0-1 record. He simply outworked Ali and won the title in one of the most significant upsets in boxing history.

9. Knockout of Sonny Liston in re-match (May 25, 1965) – Ali won by first-round knockout with the phan-tom punch that many to this day insist didn’t land. It marked the end of Lis-ton as a serious contender.

10. Loss to Larry Holmes (Oct. 2, 1980) – Anyone who saw the fight cringed at the site of an aged Ali un-able to move and unable to compete against Holmes. Several times, Hol-mes turned to referee Richard Greene and pleaded with him to stop the fight. When Greene didn’t, Holmes turned back to battering Ali in what was the saddest bout of his career.

Local boxing scribes put “The Greatest” under a microscope:

“To be fair, Ali was drawn in so many directions. There were the ra-cial tensions, Vietnam, the division within the Black Muslim faith and the fact he was making a ton of money with everybody wanting a piece of the action.”

“Ali was the greatest if you consid-er he had more women chasing after him than Elvis, the Beatles, and Ti-ger Woods combined. I imagine even the great Wilt Chamberlain called for advice. His ego became so big he had to turn sideways just to get through a doorway.”

“At this stage in his life, he’s be-come a huge ATM machine, fundrais-er extraordinaire, with every charity imaginable knocking on the door. He doesn’t have one birthday party, this year he had five.”

“From his numerous quips and catchphrases, to his brash, in-your-face openness, to his controversial stances on race, Ali set a tone far dif-ferent from professional athletes of his era.”

“No one can dispute his effect on our pop culture. He’s had 30 books written about him, made appear-ances on the covers of magazines and TV, been the subject of seven movies, had advertising deals with Coke and Pizza Hut, has a star on the Hollywood Walk-of-Fame, and he’s even had his own Saturday morning cartoon show. Did I leave anything out?”

“The reason I loved him is because of his confidence,” said University of Kentucky men’s basketball coach John Calipari. “He would talk and then back it up. He had great courage and who had more fun than him?”

Muhammad Ali’s most memorable moments in the ring

Muhammad Ali gets a kiss from movie star Halle Berry.


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Lobbying (also lobby) is the act of attempting to influence decisions made by officials in the government, most often legislators or members of regulatory agencies.

The ethics and morality of lobbying are dual-edged. Lobbying is often spo-ken of with contempt, when the implication is that people with inordinate so-cioeconomic power are corrupting the law (twisting it away from fairness) in order to serve their own conflict of interest. ). The difficulty in drawing objec-tive lines between which lobbyists are “good lobbyists” and which ones are “bad ones” is compounded by the cleverness with which lobbyists or their clients can speciously argue that their own lobbying is of the “good” kind.

Bribery, is an act of implying money or gift giving that alters the behavior of the recipient. Bribery constitutes a crime and is defined by Black’s Law Diction-ary as the offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of any item of value to influ-ence the actions of an official or other person in charge of a public or legal duty.

The bribe is the gift bestowed to influence the recipient’s conduct. It may be any money, good, right in action, property, preferment, privilege, emolument, object of value, advantage, or merely a promise or undertaking to induce or influence the action, vote, or influence of a person in an official or public ca-pacity.

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This issue was always about more than contraceptives and who pays for them. It is about individual liberty and whether the government under “Obamacare” has the constitutional right to dictate to private businesses and church-related entities when such orders violate conscience and reli-gious beliefs. Would the administra-tion also order a conscientious objec-tor to engage in combat? It’s the same principle.

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“Field Tested” by Emily King, c.2012, Amacom, $29.95, 187 pages.

In a normal weeks’ time, you get many applications from many job-seekers.

That’s no surprise in any economy, but what caught your eye this week was that the number has soared. Veterans are returning to the civilian workforce in waves, and they’re reach-ing out to you for employ-ment.

Fortunately, you might have a place for someone with military experience but making room on the payroll isn’t all you’ll need to do. In the new book “Field Tested” by Emily King, you’ll learn how to keep the best employee you may ever have.

Every year, and particularly now, tens of thousands of mili-tary personnel leave their old jobs to join the ranks of civilian work-ers. You’d love to tap into a veteran’s discipline, that can-do attitude, and the training that comes from working for everybody’s favorite Uncle. But there are things you need to do before you post a Help Wanted ad. There are considerations on both sides of the desk, and preparation is key.

First, understand that most employ-ees don’t leave a job, they leave a man-ager. Managing properly for reten-tion, therefore, is what you ultimately want. Since the average veteran goes through three jobs before acclimating to civilian workplaces, it’s to your ad-vantage to anticipate the challenges that will come with transition.

At issue is that the military is a very different kind of business than the one you have in the civilian world, and you can’t make assumptions. Your

Field Tested:Recruiting, Managing,and Retaining Veterans

new hire may never have had to nego-tiate for salary or benefits. He or she may be unaccustomed to a more casu-al, less-regimented office with unique relationships between employees. Of-fice hours are gentler. Even the uni-forms are different.

So what can you do for your new hire to help with what amounts to a diversity issue and a “culture clash.” How can you keep him or her working for you?

Arm yourself with an under-standing of what your employee is leaving behind and how it affects think-ing. Make sure he or she knows what the job entails, how departments work together, and what is expected. Don’t as-sume anything. Pair a new employee with an established co-worker who is a veteran, too. Check in often and keep the doors of com-munication wide open.

You’ve seen the post-ers and ads reminding

you to hire a veteran. Does it re-ally have to be this hard?

Author Emily King has studied this subject at length and she says that it could be, but that knowledge is essen-tial for “[A]nticipating and heading off challenges…” I liked that King, who has a passion for this subject and has “committed” herself to ensuring that veterans are prepared for civil-ian workplaces, gives employers lots of tools for keeping those challenges in perspective. I also appreciated the first-hand accounts from veterans who’ve made the transition.

Be aware that this book is occasion-ally repetitive, may feel like baby-steps at times, and is nowhere near reading-lite. Still, if you’re eager to strengthen your business in a relative-ly easy way, “Field Tested” is a book you’ll salute.

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Introduction: Many military personnel, spouses, former spous-es and retirees are victimized by myths and misstatements about dis-ability payments from the Depart-ment of Veterans Affairs and their effect on money issues in a divorce. Some people claim that VA benefits can be divided in a divorce, just like a military pension. Some claim that VA disability pay is “off lim-its” in calculation of child support and alimony. Even lawyers have a hard time understanding whether – and how – a court can order gar-nishment of VA payments to accom-plish the prompt and full payment of family support ordered by the judge. Those who have served our country in uniform, and those who have accompanied them, are en-titled to honest answers. Below are some of the questions and charges made, followed by accurate and straightforward answers.

Q. I’ve heard that Congress clearly intended to protect veter-ans’ benefits from being awarded to anyone other than the veteran who earned those benefits under any circumstances.

A. This myth has been making the rounds recently. Like the sto-ries of Bigfoot, Shangri-La and the Loch Ness Monster, it has a core of “believers.” And like these exam-ples, it’s not true. Congress wrote the law on veterans’ benefits, found at Title 38 of the U.S. Code, with an eye toward exempting VA ben-efits from most creditors’ claims; ordinary creditors are barred from execution or garnishment of VA payments. But family members are not ordinary creditors. They are, in fact, the subject of special protec-tions in Title 38, both for child sup-port and alimony.

Q. But my ex-husband told me that the federal law on “Veterans’ Benefits,” Title 38, U.S. Code, Sec-tion 5301 and following provisions, was written by Congress to protect veterans’ benefits from third-party awards under any legal process whatsoever. Is that true?

A. Not at all. The case that lays down the law on this is Rose v. Rose (U.S. Supreme Court 1987). There the Court made it clear that 10 U.S.C. Section 5301 (the “anti-at-tachment clause” in Title 38) does not apply to court orders which re-quire a veteran to support his or her family. VA benefits can and should be considered as income when the judge is deciding how much support a spouse or children need and what a veteran is able to pay.

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Responses to BootsTo the Editor:I am responding to the article in

the April 1, 2012 The Military Press. Outstanding! If anything, this article should be required reading for every Senator and Congressman, as well as the Administration. It was short, but to the point and more truthful than you can imagine. I hope to copy this article and send it to all of my friends.

— Terry Bucklew, RSVN 1968-1970

To the Editor:Just wanted to say I read your ar-

ticle in Military Press about PTSD and coming DOD cuts, and I agree with you.

I personally agree that DoD needs to cut costs and save some tax payers’ money; however, they do it ALL at the wrong place. I am active duty and we struggle to do our job because we don’t have the funds to buy BASIC supply and BASIC equipment to do our job, while DoD spend billions of dollars on “high tech” weapon systems that are over-paid and not needed.

But who benefits of this? The poli-ticians and their friends...

Same with the manning. We are already way UNDER-MANNED, but they cut our numbers again... with ERB, PTS, etc. Always the workers (bottom enlisted personnel) who are cut, while the higher ups stay there,

cost A LOT more to DoD, and do not much...

And final-ly, I believe there is WAY TOO MANY civilians in the Navy and Dod... they take a lot of military posi-tions, but cost a lot more, and MOST double dip: they retire from active duty, then their high-placed friends “civilized” their position, and they keep doing the same job after they re-tire from active duty, but now as a GS 11 or higher... That’s where the cuts should be done! Thank you.

— Prefer to Remain Anonymous

To the Editor:I enjoyed your article. I am an old

man In 1963 JFK sent me a letter to serve my country. I left college and joined the Army. Unlike Rush Lim-baugh, Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney, Roger Hedgecock and others who profess their support for the military, they made lame excuses to avoid the Draft, getting college deferments. In the end they deferred nothing.

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Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe, January 19, 1809-October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financial-ly difficult life and career.

He was born as Edgar Poe in Bos-ton, Massachusetts; he was orphaned young when his mother died shortly after his father abandoned the family. Poe was taken in by John and Fran-ces Allan, of Richmond, Virginia, but they never formally adopted him. He attended the University of Virginia for one semester but left due to lack of money. After enlisting in the Army and later failing as an officer’s cadet at West Point, Poe parted ways with the Allans. His publishing career began humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to “a Bostonian.”

Poe switched his focus to prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism. His work forced him to move among several cities, includ-ing Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City. In Baltimore in 1835, he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year-old cousin. In January 1845 Poe pub-lished his poem, “The Raven,” to instant success. His wife died of tuber-culosis two years after its publication. He began planning to produce his own journal, The Penn (later renamed The Stylus), though he died before it could be produced. On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore; the cause of his death is unknown and has been variously attributed to alco-hol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, tuber-culosis, and other agents.

Poe and his works influenced litera-ture in the United States and around the world, as well as in specialized fields, such as cosmology and cryp-tography. Poe and his work appear throughout popular culture in litera-ture, music, films, and television. A number of his homes are dedicated museums today.

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The association’s focus recalls an era that preceded our entitlement, envy and greed generation. One of the goals stated in its “Success Fac-tors Study,” is to “...identify and as-sist scholars who exemplify resilience in the face of adversity — a hallmark characteristic of Association mem-bers, themselves leaders who have journeyed from humble beginnings to achieve unprecedented success.” Scholarship money goes to young peo-ple in need who have demonstrated the character qualities the society em-

bodies and promotes.The adults who are honored by

the association are people who, when young, dug ditches, painted houses and worked at other menial jobs. Some came from what we once called “broken homes,” others had alcoholic fathers, or absent mothers. Many es-caped poverty. They tell their stories of a teacher who inspired them, or a mentor who encouraged them. The one common denominator in each of their backgrounds is the individual’s embrace of this simple formula: inspi-

ration followed by perspiration equals success.

While the Horatio Alger Associa-tion is nonpartisan, the Republican Party is missing a great opportunity to resurrect Horatio Alger and return him to the center of American soci-ety. Instead of allowing some liberal Democrats to own the issue of “com-passion” and promote victimhood and class warfare among their con-stituents, Republicans should feature people on the campaign trail who tell their stories of achievement, encour-aging others not to “settle,” or become mired in difficult circumstances.

One of the honorees at last year’s Horatio Alger Awards dinner, Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, said: “People who believe they’re victims will be-come victims. People who believe they can win, eventually will win.” Ailes grew up in humble surroundings, but refused to allow those surroundings to define him.

Instead of focusing on failure and poverty, why aren’t Republicans tell-ing stories of success and prosperity, or at least self-sufficiency and what it takes to improve a life?

Success is not a secret. It is as old as civilization itself. The late radio broadcaster Paul Harvey made a ca-reer out of telling stories about people who overcame hardship through per-severance and tenacity and by em-bracing virtues that have helped those who live by them to experience a bet-ter life.

Also appearing at the 2011 Alger dinner was actor Tom Selleck, who said, “There are no magic formulas, no single book, or even educational degrees that can generate the spirit of achievement through perseverance. Nothing creates and inspires resolve more than knowing achievement is possible for someone who came from circumstances like your own. When the hardships of life threaten to sever hope from you, there is no prosthetic for an amputated spirit, no therapy for the atrophy of a dream, no medication for the sickness that breaks the heart and withers the soul. There is the American Dream.”

Republicans are known for wanting to reduce the power of government. That is more likely to occur when the power of the individual increases.

“You can do it!” parents cry as they take the training wheels off their kids’ bikes and give them that last guiding push down the sidewalk.

Take the “training wheels” of gov-ernment off those Americans who rely on government far too much. Con-vince these Americans that they can make something of themselves, if they would only try. These should be the objectives of Americans of every po-litical stripe.

Horatio Alger got it. So can Repub-licans.

Inspiration plus perspiration equals success

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Casino (1995)Screenwriter(s): Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese

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Rothstein (Robert DeNiro) lamented the new situation - in which corporations now ran Vegas with “junk bonds”, and it had become family friendly. During a closing montage, he delivered a wistful, disdainful eulogy for the older, classier casino way of life in Las Vegas. However, he wound up as a sports handicapper for the Mob - “right back where I started”

The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today, it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play card-board pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior’s college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it’s like checkin’ into an airport. And if you order room service, you’re lucky if you get it by Thursday. Today, it’s all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some twenty-five-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from to rebuild the pyramids? Junk bonds...But in the end, I wound up right back where I started. I could still pick winners, and I could still make money for all kinds of people back home. And why mess up a good thing? And that’s that.




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This issue, it’s the 2012 Acura TSX sedan we test, which is the entry level compact from the high-end Honda manufacturer. Our tester happens to be the 25th Anniversary “Special Edition,” (SE), which comes well equipped with an aim towards a more youth oriented consumer.

Included in the SE’s base price is the $2,500 up-grade Special Edition package, which is then dis-counted by $1,500 to arrive at a final $30,810 re-tail. With $885 for destination added, our Acura SE comes well equipped with a “less than base price” of $31,695 retail. This alone is worth some “25th Anni-versary” kudos, as it’s the first time ever a car we’ve tested comes in with a bottom line lower than the base price.

Special to this Acura are SE specific 17-inch alloy wheels, numerous badges, special interior and oth-er SE tweaks the “regular” TSX does not have. For comparison, the entry level TSX starts at $29,810, so for the extra $1800, you might as well step up to the SE.

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• The 55 MPH speed limit is ended• Nerve gas put in Tokyo subway in-jures thousands• Steve Fossett becomes the first first to make a solo floright across the Pa-cific in a hot air balloon• MLB players end a 232-day strike• Megan’s Law is passed, helping make people aware of convicted sex offend-ers in their neighborhoods

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With the NFL Draft just two weeks away, all eyes of Chargers fans will focus on A.J. Smith with speculation that an unproductive draft and an-other season without a playoff appear-ance could cost both him and head coach Norv Turner their jobs.

Having missed the playoffs the past two seasons, the Chargers are no longer regarded the class of the AFC West. Rather, the prohibitive favorite appears to be the Denver Broncos – now led by future Hall of Fame quar-terback Peyton Manning.

If that’s not bad enough, many in the NFL ‘know’ consider the Kansas City Chiefs the second-best team in the west with the Chargers ranked slightly ahead of the Oakland Raiders – a team they are just 1-3 against the last two seasons.

After finishing 8-8 last year, it appears that it’s now or never for both Smith and Turner. Wheth-er he’s feeling the pressure of duplicating his drafts of 2004 and 2005 or the football gods threw him a bone by mak-ing available one of

the more talented free agent classes in recent memory, Smith struck swiftly once free agency began.

Having lost three Pro Bowlers from their high-powered offense, Smith wasted little time in filling those voids on the squad.

Gone are Vincent Jackson, Kris Dielman and Marcus McNeill. En-ter receivers Robert Meachem and Eddie Royal, guard Tyronne Green and left tackle Jared Gaither. By re-signing Green, Gaither and former Pro Bowl center Nick Hardwick, the Char-gers return the same five starting offensive

linemen that played well together at the

end of last season.Since March 13,

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have signed 15 unrestricted free agents. However, only four play defense, which leads one to believe that Smith will be leaning towards a defensive player with the 18th pick.

Having one of the all-time poker faces when it comes to the draft, it’s hard to predict which direction Smith will go. Here is a look at a few well-known ‘draft pundits’ and what they are predicting for the Chargers at 18:

NFL Network – Charles Davis: Da-vid DeCastro (OG/Stanford);

Albert Breer: Courtney Upshaw (OLB/Alabama);

Brian Baldinger, Charley

Casserly, Chad Reuter: Cordy Glenn (OT/Georgia);

Bucky Brooks: Whitney Mercilus (DE/OL/Illinois);

CBS Sportsline – Pete Prisco: Mi-chael Brockers (DT/LSU);

Pat Kirwan: David DeCastro (OG/Stanford);

Clark Judge: Nick Perry (DE/USC); Rob Rang: Andre Branch (DE/

Clemson); Dane Brugler: David DeCastro

(OG/Stanford);Pro Football Weekly – Nolan

Nawrocki: Courtney Upshaw (OLB/Alabama);

Ourlad’s Draft Guide – Nick Perry (DE/USC);

Sports Illustrated – Don Banks: Whitney Mercilus (DE/OLB/Illinois);

Whether the pick is an outside pass rusher, a run-stuffing defensive tackle, a tough-nosed strong safety or a stud offensive lineman, one thing is for sure – he better make an immediate impact on the field. With their fan base up in arms that Smith and Turner were retained, the Chargers cannot afford to take another Buster Davis or Larry English. The fans want to see players in uniform on the field rather than wearing street clothes on the sidelines.



Record: Won 107 Lost 6, 2 draws, 80 KOHis record speaks for itself. Chavez is a Mexican legend who has gone over ten years straight without a loss.

8. ROCKY MARCIANO

Won 49 Lost 0, 43 KO (UNDEFEAT-ED)Rocky Marciano is one of the hard-est punchers ever who’s biggest claim to fame is being the only undefeated Heavyweight champion.

9.HENRY ARMSTRONG JR.150 wins, (100 KO) 21 losses and 9 drawsHenry Armstrong was the first and

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10. WILLIE PEP

Record: won 229 (KO 65), lost 11, drawn 1Willie Pep is an Italian-American box-er who fought for 26 years with a total of 229 wins out of 241 fights, perhaps the most impressive record in boxing.

By druhepkins

The boxers on this all time list were chosen for their respective boxing records, boxing ability and talent, popularity, competition they faced, showmanship, and cultural signifi-cance in their era. The true greatest boxers of all time should represent a blend of all those attributes as you’ll find in the selections below.

1. JOE LOUISRecord:Won 66 Lost 3, 52 KO (66-3)Known as “The Brown Bomber”, Joe Louis was an American Icon.

2. MUHAMMAD ALIRecord: 56wins 37 KO 5 losses (56-5)In every aspect of the sport, Muham-mad Ali was electrifying.

3. SUGAR RAY ROBINSONRecord: 173 wins, 109 (KO)19 losses, 6 draws, 2 no contestsMany consider Robinson to be the greatest pound for pound boxer of all time.

4. JACK JOHNSONRecord: Won 73 (40 KO), Lost 13, Draw 9, NC, 2Before Muhammad Ali or Roy Jones Jr., the biggest brash, bold trash talker around was the first African American Heavyweight Champ Jack Johnson.

5. MIKE TYSONRecord: 50 wins, 6 losses, 44 KO, 2NC (50-6)Let’s just be real; Tyson is snubbed, misplaced, or left out all together on almost all the lists I’ve seen.

6. JACK DEMPSEYWon 66 (KO 51), Lost 6 (KO 1) , drawn 9Jack Dempsey is definitely one of the most popular American boxers in his-tory.

7.JULIO CESAR CHAVEZ

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By Lee Moran

President John F Kennedy ordered an aide to buy him as many Cuban cigars as he could just hours before he authorised the U.S. trade embargo - which subsequently made them illegal.

Kennedy asked his head of press and fellow cigar smoker Pierre Salinger to obtain ‘1,000 Petit Upmanns’ on February 6, 1962, so he could have them in his hands before they were deemed contraband.

Then, seconds after he was told the next morning that 1,200 of Cuba’s finest export had been bought for him, he signed the decree to ban all of the communist state’s products from the U.S.

The re-surfacing of the story, initially recounted by Salinger to Cigar Aficionado magazine in 1992, comes with the passing of the 50th anniversary of the embargo yesterday.

JFK, he said, called him into his office and said he needed ‘some help’ to find ‘a lot of cigars’. He wanted ‘1,000 Petit Upmanns’ and needed them by ‘tomorrow

morning’.Salinger added: ‘I walked

out of the office wondering if I would succeed. But since I was a solid Cuban cigar smoker, I knew a lot of stores. I worked on the problem into the eve-ning.

‘The next morning, I walked into my White House office at about 8am, and the direct line from the President’s office was already ringing. He asked me to come in immediately.

‘How did you do Pierre?’ he asked, as I walked through the door. ‘Very well,’ I answered. In fact, I’d gotten 1,200 cigars. Kennedy smiled, and opened up his desk.

‘He took out a long paper which he immediately signed. It was the decree banning all Cuban products from the United States. Cuban cigars were now illegal in our country.’

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Cuba is known as the world leader in high-quality to-bacco. Cuban cigars are

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When Christopher Columbus landed on the island in 1492, he came across tobacco. One year later, European explorers took it back to their land. Spain was the first European country to embrace smoking, which soon became pop-ular in Turkey, Russia, Japan, and Persia. Tobacco plantations arose in eastern Cuba during the 18th century and spread westward. Na-tives viewed the tobacco, or cohiba, as a miraculous medicine, using it in ceremonies.

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For years, tobacco was the sec-ond largest Cuban export after sugar. Pinar del Rio province is the current site of most produc-tion. Cubatabaco and Habanos SA are the two manufacturers and exporters of Cuban machine and handmade cigars. These products carry a high status and are often imitated, with a reported 95 per-cent of Cuban cigars sold in the U.S. being counterfeit.


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By Liz Smith

“THE STAR thing, the celeb-rity thing, is new to me. I don’t want to be a good celebrity, a good star. I want to be a good human being.”

So says two-time Oscar nominee and star of the coming “The Bourne Legacy” -- Jeremy Renner. He doesn’t want to be a good star? He wants to be merely a good human being? What a revolutionary approach to show biz!

Renner, who is known to audiences from his performances in “The Hurt Locker,” “The Town” and “Mission

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Gazillions of dollars have been poured into the new “Bourne” mov-ie. (Renner does not play the Jason Bourne character originated by Matt Damon. He plays an agent who doesn’t have amnesia.) Lots of dough has also been spent on the hugely anticipated “The Avengers,” based on the Mar-vel Comics characters. (He will co-star with Chris Hemsworth, Robert Downey Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson.)

Jeremy’s resistance to “the star thing” is shaping up to be a monumen-tal task. This is what the Hollywood Reporter wrote last week: “His abil-

ity to carry the ‘Bourne’ film -- along with his ‘Avengers’ role ... will affect the fate of three companies (Univer-sal, Disney and Marvel.) It will even spill over on Paramount’s plans for the next ‘Mission Impossible,’ where he has been groomed to supplant what has been for more than 15 years Tom Cruise’s one-man show.”

MEMO TO Zac Efron -- Australia may be the end of the earth to you, but

they have paparazzi with telephoto lenses.

The heartthrob Mr. Efron was caught on the balcony of his hotel suite in Sydney in his tight gray un-dershorts and low-slung pants, shirt-less. Mr. Z. is in Australia promoting his upcoming film, “The Lucky One.” Actually, his fans consider themselves the lucky ones. They don’t get to see this much of their idol in the movies!

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Pool, BBQ, Rec Rm, LndryPet free community

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28th Annual Children's Book Party150 Volunteers needed for:

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Broker Cooperation Welcome. A 2.25kW solar power system is included as a standard component of a new KB home at Edgewood at The Cove, Fox Hollow at Crown Valley Village, Manzanita at Paseo del Sol and Shady Grove. A 3.15kW solar power system is included as a standard component of a new KB home at Twinbrook at Crown Valley Village. Energy bill savings are based on estimated monthly costs for electricity and gas for a home as designed (not as built) with the corresponding solar power system compared to estimated monthly costs for electricity and gas without the system. KBH makes no guarantee of energy production by any solar power system installed with a home or of energy costs or savings, if any, experienced by any homeowner. Energy costs and savings, if any, will vary by floor plan, home size, occupancy, daily activities, appliance usage, thermostat settings, climate conditions and orientation of the home and the solar power system size and

operating conditions, among other factors. KBH reserves the right to modify, discontinue or replace any solar options at any time without prior notice. Other restrictions and limitations may apply. Solar power systems are supplied by SunPower Corporation®. KBH and SunPower Corporation are independent companies. SunPower and the SunPower logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of SunPower Corporation. Payment of Broker Co-op requires Broker or agent to accompany and register buyer on first visit and comply with Broker Co-op Agreement. Plans, pricing, financing, terms, availability and specifications subject to change/prior sale without notice and may vary by neighborhood, lot location and home series. Buyer responsible for all taxes, insurance and other fees. Sq. footage is approximate. HOA applies. Photos may depict upgraded landscaping/options and display decorator items/furnishings not available for purchase, and may not represent lowest-priced homes. See sales representative for details. KB Home Sales–Southern California Inc. (CA Real Estate License 00242327). SOCAL-102153

Manzanita at Paseo del Sol in TemeculaFrom the high $200s• 1,628–2,224 sq. ft.• 3–5 bedrooms, 2.5–3 baths• solar power system included

Call (951) 225-9860 for directions.

Villages at Monument Park in PerrisFrom the high $100s• 1,250–2,530 sq. ft.• 3–6 bedrooms, 2–3 baths• easy freeway access


Fox Hollow at Crown Valley Village in MurrietaFrom the mid $200s• 1,551–2,597 sq. ft.• 4–5 bedrooms, 2–3 baths• solar power system included


Twinbrook at Crown Valley Village in MurrietaFrom the high $200s• 2,595–3,563 sq. ft.• 3–7 bedrooms, 2.5–4 baths• solar power system included


Turnberry at Sierra Park in RiversideFrom the mid $200s• 1,488–2,357 sq. ft.• 3–4 bedrooms, 2–2.5 baths• gated community• pool and park


Shady Grove in FallbrookFrom the low $400s• 1,968–3,500 sq. ft.• 3–5 bedrooms, 2–4.5 baths• RV and boat storage on-site• no Mello-Roos• solar power system included


Edgewood at The Cove in San JacintoFrom the high $100s• 1,394–2,233 sq. ft.• 3–5 bedrooms, 2–2.5 baths• solar power system included


Sycamore at Hidden Hills in MenifeeFrom the mid $200s• 1,846–2,966 sq. ft.• 3–5 bedrooms, 2–3 baths• RV accessible home-sites


AT YOUR SERVICELet us help you create a new home that suits you.

You deserve to be rewarded for all you do for your community. Visit one of the Southern California KB Home communities below and learn more about our special homebuying opportunities for qualified military personnel.


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