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Why I Just Celebrated My 85th Birthday in the Boxing Ring

FIGHT NIGHT

Few spaces are more merciless, more transparent than a boxing ring—an arena designed to show whether an individual has what Tom Wolfe ascribed to astronauts: the Right Stuff.

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