Arum originally planned to hold the event at Madison Square Garden, but the Garden was booked.
"There are no Chinese people here, " Mr. Zou correctly observed, according to Mr. Arum.
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Arum and Roksa argue that many students today perceive college as fundamentally a social experience.
Arum argues that the lower income taxes for Pacquiao would offset a potentially smaller purse.
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Arum and Roksa point out that professors have little incentive to make their courses more rigorous.
"We'd come into the city primarily to go to the old Madison Square Garden, " Arum recalled.
"Realistically, they're talking about doing the fight in Las Vegas, Dallas or New Orleans, " Arum added.
Regardless, Arum and Roksa have revealed an alarming reality that for many, college is a problematic investment.
"My uncles had a jewelry store over there, " Arum said as the Benz passed down Fifth Avenue.
Arum confirmed that negotiations have finally reignited for a dream bout between Pacquaio and Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Arum realized he'd left his phone back at the hotel, though he wasn't exactly addicted to the device.
Bob Arum, promoter of the fight, favours De la Hoya but says the fight could go either way.
Depending on the outcome Saturday night, Donaire may be Arum's next Manny Pacquiao.
Mr. Arum said he took "the kid" to sleek Beverly Hills hot spot Mr. Chow for dinner for a taste of home.
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Mr. Arum said he doesn't plan to teach Mr. Zou the trash-talking skills that some of his U.S. boxing counterparts have mastered.
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Promoter Bob Arum said he wants to see a third fight, but would look elsewhere for both fighters for their next fights.
That is why the Arum and Roksa book has created a firestorm.
Marthinus points out an arum lily, a striking white bloom known as the 'death flower' because of its use in funeral arrangements.
Still, Arum and Roksa believe that some things do make a difference.
Arum exited the Mercedes to a scrum of photographers waiting for Cotto.
In preparation for this weekend's debut, Mr. Arum in February sent Mr. Zou to study in the U.S. with boxing maestro Freddie Roach.
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San Francisco, known for its hipsters and trendy tech startups, was the obvious place for CMB to branch out to next, said Co-founder Arum Kang.
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Arum and Roksa say that college has become a leisure activity, with the typical undergraduate spending 40 hours a week socializing and 13 hours studying.
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Arum was confident that the issue of a revenue split which proved to be one of the stumbling blocks in the past could be resolved.
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Arum grew up in Brooklyn, on Montgomery Street in Crown Heights, the son of an accountant who had clients like the vaudeville-turned-Broadway act Olsen and Johnson.
For example, Arum and Roksa find that students who experience more rigorous classroom instruction and have professors with higher expectations generally tend to have larger learning gains.
John Kennedy Jr. and his aunt, Lee Radziwill, would sit at Arum's side as Ali avenged his "Fight of the Century" loss to Frazier three years earlier.
The second Arum quote is a dig at Top Rank rival Golden Boy Promotions, founded by De La Hoya, which has worked with Mayweather in recent fights.
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The higher ed world is all abuzz about the release of a brand new book by sociologists Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, titled Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses.
Not far away was the 21 Club, where an eager Arum once invited Jacqueline and Aristotle Onassis to see the 1974 rematch between his client, Muhammad Ali, and Joe Frazier.
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