Hints and tips:
...Muhammad Ali laughs as he enters the room. He’s taking in the V&A’s south Asian collection and the 16th-century Ardabil carpet on to which my brother and I have manoeuvred a low table....
...He hasn’t announced a blank-cheque deal since January, when his Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp V announced a tie-up with the digital lender SoFi....
...And there's a lot about it in our FT colleague Charles Glover's book about Eurasianism, Black Wind, White Snow, about the weird history books Patrushev reads....
...Antoine GodinUniversité Sorbonne Paris Nord, France Michael JacobsProfessor of Political Economy, University of Sheffield Ronan PalmerDirector Clean Economy, E3G Dirk EhntsPufendorf-Gesellschaft Berlin e.V....
...Since Downton Abbey’s main character is Downton Abbey, the mountains must visit Muhammad. Cue King George V and Queen Mary bestowing a royal visit....
...Then, in 1974, came the Rumble in the Jungle: Ali v George Foreman....
...Glover says this distinction allows conglomerate brands such as Gucci to feel safe signing its pledge: “That level of trust is there.”...
...To be fair, there would have to be a computerised fight, just as that in 1969 between Muhammad Ali and Rocky Marciano. The computer determined that Marciano would knock Ali out in the 13th round....
...Steeped in Zen and Sufi, influenced by Indian abstractionists such as V.S. Gaitonde as well as western modernists including Mondrian and Malevich, Mohamedi’s starting point was the grid....
...I do not normally move in the company of boxers, probably because of fear of a left hook to the kidneys, but I was fortunate enough to meet Muhammad Ali once....
...Now, I don’t know any of your soccer players or any cricket guys but I bet you’ve heard of Muhammad Ali.”...
...… Mansha greets me in casual attire: a checked grey shirt, V-necked cardigan and denim slacks, with Asics running shoes peeping out below....
...The enduring power of the histories, written by someone who had dwelled in various social worlds – small-town glover’s boy, grammar-school swot, common thespian – lies in the comprehensiveness of their vision...
...Fifteen years ago I wondered whether “this feeling of constant calculation is attributable to the character or the actor” (then Jamie Glover), but Dugald Bruce-Lockhart’s current performance indicates that...
...They had names: The Fight of the Century (Frazier v Ali, 1971), The Rumble in the Jungle (Foreman v Ali, 1974), The Thrilla in Manila, (Ali v Frazier, 1975)....
...The London 100m was going to be the ultimate sizzler: the Champ v the Kid....
...The case, Gallus et al. v....
...First came the British Museum’s Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur, then the V&A’s Maharaja, followed by the Saatchi Gallery’s contemporary Indian art The Empire Strikes Back and the Whitechapel...
...Twenty-Four Views in Hindostan in 1802-05, and William Orme’s work (some based on earlier oil paintings by Francis Swain Ward) showed the western public splendours both old and new – the dreamy spires of Muhammad...
...The dramatis personae of Obama v McCain included Joe the Plumber, Joe Sixpack and vice-president elect Joe Biden....
...It’s about noon and I am alone with Joe Glover, a young member of the King entourage, who is beginning preparations for the barbecue. He offers me a drink and I ask for water....
...In a reflection of tennis’s schizoid fortunes, the David Nalbandian v James Blake semi-final that followed felt like punishment, almost another sport....
...The newly refurbished galleries, which formerly housed medieval sculpture, tapestries and textiles, run in a single broad corridor along the south side of the John Madejski Garden at the V&A’s heart and...
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
...Boxers, like actors, have long devised more billboard-friendly handles – Kid Gavilan, Fighting Harada, Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Leonard – but that was not why Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali of...
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