>Begin rant
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>The NYT has a list of the IMPORTANT people who died this year.
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>The adjectives I'd use for a lot of them - Prince, David Bowie etc aren't appropriate for this time of year.
>Of course it included the draft-dodging traitor Cassius Clay - I never bought into his adopted name- who I think was the most overrated athlete of my time.
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>However, what really riled me...
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>Arnold Palmer wasn't on the list!
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>End rant.

You know he is in a class of his own, to have a drink named after him.