Eulogised on his death as a hero, it is easy to forget how reviled Ali once was in his homeland Neal Gabler

The pretence of looking at the facts of a case may have its own prejudice, writes Neal Gabler

AT SOME point in the future, someone will look at the “developed” world we have today and wonder at its weirdness.

PERHAPS the most surprising moment during Sunday’s drab Oscar ceremony was not Michael Moore’s dramatic denunciation of President Bush and his ‘fictitious’ war on Iraq, but the audience’s reaction to it.