“George Harrison: Living in the Material World” is Martin Scorsese’s tender examination of the life of the quiet Beatle. It is exhaustive and loopy and it takes two nights to watch — Wednesday and Thursday on HBO. Early on, Scorsese almost does something that would have been heretically bold but also smooth. There is a photograph of the Beatles together in their earliest days, before the Cavern or Hamburg, when it was just a bunch of adolescents in a skiffle band playing at church picnics. A baby-faced Harrison is among them, barely a teenager. That shot is then quickly followed by a scene where, surrounded by lawyers, Harrison and Paul McCartney jovially sign the paperwork that begins the litigiously endless dissolution of the Beatles. Read full article > >

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In a bare, basement storage room at the Naylor Gardens apartments in Southeast Washington sits a worn, deflated punching bag that Dusty Harrison began hitting when he was 1 or 2 years old. Harrison’s father, Buddy, hosted weekly sparring matches in the same basement until Harrison grew too strong and skilled for the other neighborhood children. Dusty Harrison fought in his first Toughman boxing competition at 6, when he knocked out a 10-year-old in the second round. At 8, he won his first amateur fight in a 55-pound Golden Gloves competition. Read full article > >

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At 17, D.C. fighter Dusty Harrison may have to wait for next chance

Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova lost to unseeded Alexandra Dulgheru, and the American teenager Ryan Harrison, a surprise of the 2010 Open, was also eliminated.

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One of the older suspects in the investigation of the gang rape of an 11-year-old girl from Cleveland, Texas, has been charged. The 26-year-old Walter Jamal Harrison turned himself in after seeing his picture on the Liberty County sheriff’s office “ten…

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Local authority sales of tenancy farms are making it more difficult for young people to become farmers, Labour peer Lord Harrison has warned.

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Tyler Zeller scores 23 points, Harrison Barnes adds 22 and the Tar Heels survive a frantic finish to edge the Huskies.

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Audley Harrison will receive his purse despite only landing one punch in his loss to David Haye in November.

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Audley Harrison decides to continue his boxing career despite his one-sided defeat to David Haye in November

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WBA heavyweight champion David Haye and former European heavyweight champion Audley Harrison continue their verbal sparring ahead of Saturday’s fight at the MEN Arena, with Haye doubting his opponent’s “warrior spirit” and Harrison saying he can go for 15 rounds.

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Huddersfield’s Shaun Lunt and Leroy Cudjoe and Warrington’s Ben Harrison will make their England debuts against Australia in Melbourne on Sunday.

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Audley Harrison demands that WBA heavyweight champion David Haye signs to fight him in November.

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