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THE PERFECT WAKE

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A FEW hours after Bernard Hopkins beat Felix Trinidad, I was having poached eggs with Budd Schulberg and he was telling me about arresting Leni Riefenstahl.

“She was beautiful,” Budd told me that morning. “But she mixed with evil men.”

I was in a city where other evil men had done their work a few weeks earlier and forced the fight to be pushed back two weeks. The dust was still heavy from the fallen towers during my unforgettable five days in New York City. Budd had coughed as we emerged that

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