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...Long before he became known as the architect of the AOL-Time Warner merger in January 2000 — generally considered the worst deal in business history — Gerald “Jerry” Levin was widely thought of as a media...
...Akrach learnt that the bodies of four Afghans — Shawali Kochy, aged 26, Muhammad Naeem Mayar, 46, Husain Tanha, 24, and Ahmad Didar, 27 — were ready to leave the morgue....
...They stood, in spirit, with Muhammad Ali, who had had his boxing title stripped for his refusal to go to Vietnam a year earlier....
...August Gerald Grosvenor, Duke of Westminster ‘We have a very strong survival instinct . . . We have been pursued by every single government and, before that, Cromwell had a damn good go at us’....
...Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X, by Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith, Basic Books, RRP£19.99/$28.99 A sort of dual biography that locates both men in the turbulent...
...Something for the Pain: A Memoir of the Turf, by Gerald Murnane, Text Publishing, RRP£12.99/$16.95 A very unusual memoir of life seen through the prism of an obsession with horseracing, by a visionary 77...
...“They are pushing the president to step down, but nothing ever materialises,” says Muhammad Ba Sendwah, leader of the opposition....
...In 1995, Gerald Levin, three years into his decade as chief executive of Time Warner, forced out Fuchs as head of HBO and asked Bewkes to take his place....
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