The Dane was struggling at a set and 5-4 down to Maria Sharapova when she lightheartedly asked McIlroy, who was among the audience, for his help.

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He lightheartedly recalled a "man with a high mission" who also enjoyed playing Stratego, a board game drawing on Napoleonic history, and belting out "La Marseillaise" and French nursery rhymes when the two companions found themselves in trying circumstances.

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He frames them incisively, ruefully, and nostalgically, as he aims lightheartedly at a darker purpose: connecting love and power, he suggests the virtue of exerting principled authority, whether in business, in politics, or in art and shows the risks that come with the pleasures and responsibilities of doing so.

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