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• Michael Dell secured his first job at age 12, washing dishes in a Chinese restaurant. During high school, he was selling subscriptions to the Houston Post. At 15, he made a choice that launched his destiny — He purchased his first computer and took it apart to see how it worked. At 19, as a pre-med student, he started up a side business “PCs Unlimited,” which upgraded customers’ computers. Within months, he had incorporated as “Dell Computer Corporation.” In 1992, when Dell was 27, he was the youngest CEO with a company on Fortune magazine’s list of the Top 500 corporations. By 1996, the company was experiencing sales of $1 million a day from online sales. Today, he is ranked the 44th wealthiest person in the world, with a net worth of $14.6 billion.
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it is easy to see that Cooper is overmatched. Clay floats effortlessly around the ring, his left jab is a blur ... there’s no way any human being within his reach can avoid that punch. And Clay hits early, hits hard, and hits often. Cooper keeps coming in, trying to scrap, desperately throwing a few windmills and haymakers, typically when the ref goes to break the fighters, but it’s to no avail. By the fourth round, Cooper’s left eye is cut and Clay is just toying with the man, as if he’s holding him up just to make his prediction come true. And then Cooper lands the left hook and positively floors Clay, knocks him halfway across the ring. Clay’s head catches the bottom rope, or there is little doubt he would have been knocked unconscious. And then Dundee saved the world ... by cheating. Clay is saved by the bell. He wobbles to his feet, and Dundee — in violation of the rules — guides him back into his corner. They douse him with water, give him smelling salts. Clay tries to stand up — he’s dead on his feet. Finally, Dundee calls over the ref, not to throw in the towel, but to call for timeout because somehow Clay’s left glove has a 2-inch rip in it — as if by a razor. Time out is called. Five minutes later, Clay is back in the ring, and the fight is stopped when he opens Cooper’s eye. Put that in perspective. Everything you know about boxing ... gone in five minutes in Wembley. But that’s not how the story goes. Mark Vasto is a veteran sportswriter who lives in Kansas City.
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Stars Align for Stewart A fairly common script device applied to Tony Stewart and, for that matter, Clint Bowyer, in New Hampshire. Role reversal. In the race a year earlier, Bowyer won largely as a result of Stewart’s car running out of gas at the end. The fortunes reversed this time. “It’s amazing it happened like that,” Stewart said. “Clint was one of the first guys who called last year, and as happy as he was (that) he won the race, he knew how disappointing it was for us. “You don’t want to win them that way, and you don’t want to see guys lose them that way. This is a sport where guys have a lot of respect for what happens and how it happens. Having a win get away from you that way is disappointing for anybody.” People talk about irony all
Two-time Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart, who suffered an erratic regular season, is surging now in the Chase with successive victories at Chicago and New Hampshire. (John Clark/NASCAR This Week photo) the time. Most of the time, it’s coincidental, not ironic. Irony has been in place on the Sprint Cup circuit recently, however. It wasn’t long ago that Stewart, frustrated and dejected, all but wrote himself off, questioning whether his team even belonged in the Chase. The turnaround — and a rather pleasant need to eat his words — occurred quickly. “It happened in a week,” Stewart said. “We went from five laps down at Bristol to running third at Atlanta the next week. No, you don’t see it coming. It’s not like we say, ‘OK, this is what happened, this is what’s wrong and this is what you
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