He was the kind of man who never hesitated to say that he knew better than you, even when he didn't.

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The man himself says he has never understood all the fuss, it was his late wife who persuaded him that others should know what he had done.

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The man who spearheaded that advance was never content to be second-rate.

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The same man who admitted he'd never voted until he was 53, ran for mayor in 1988 out of frustration, and won.

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Here was a man who clearly never had to contend with social media, fantasy baseball or the instant response to a new profile picture (reading new twitter responses to the last chart I put up).

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Al Busaidi, who had never sailed before joining the Sultan of Oman's Navy as young man, was joined aboard the "Musandam-Oman Sail" by his fellow 29-year-old countryman Fahad Al Hasni who has only been sailing for three years.

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His father was an heir to the Schilling spice fortune a gifted, troubled man who could never quite settle on a career and slowly fell to drink.

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