Volume 53, Number 20 · December 21, 2006
A Far-Flung Correspondent
By Neal Ascherson
Reporting: Writings from The New Yorker
by David Remnick
Knopf, 483 pp., $27.95
David Remnick, famous as a foreign correspondent and now editor of The New Yorker, also nurses a fascination with the boxing ring. That quotation comes from the trainer Teddy Atlas, explaining to Remnick how he tries to make his boxers fight to win. Elvis Muriqi had just let him down, preferring to collude with his opponent and survive rather than to go into dark places and be a brute. As the fifth round began (Muriqi eventually slouched to victory on points), Atlas confided to Remnick: 'He's making the choice just to get by. He's satisfied, but I can't let him be satisfied.'
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