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World Service,2 mins

How Muhammad Ali faced life with Parkinson's disease

Newshour

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Writer Bob Greene describes a dinner out with his friend Ali when the former boxer was coping with Parkinsons disease. He praises the courage it took the former boxer to appear in public and look 'the world straight in the eye all the way close to the end'. Image: Muhammad Ali throws a punch for the camera in December, 2001 Credit: Mike Theiler/AFP/Getty Images

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