That same season, Valentino Rossi took the first of his 101 premier-class victories so far following an unforgettable battle with our own Jeremy McWilliams and the Italian somehow bettered that the following year to beat pole man Max Biaggi with a stunning ride from eleventh on the grid.

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Yesterday, we bade farewell to opera great Luciano Pavarotti and last month we lost Max Roach, the man who revolutionized not just jazz drumming but jazz itself.

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''Shooting days are easily 5000 calorie days, '' says Max, who is trim for a man in his 50s.

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Rather, it was in the hyper-competitive U.S. retail sector where he is best known as the man behind the Californian label Max Studio.

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Eric Meek, RSPB area manager in Orkney said Sir Peter, widely known as Max, was "a highly intelligent man who cares about what is going on in the world".

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Max yelled, pointing to the frog-eyed man.

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All the more so since Mr Strauss's first successor as premier in Munich, Max Streibl, proved too puny to fill the old man's giant shoes.

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"He was a wonderful man and supremely talented actor, " wrote actor Max Greenfield.

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At Burning Man, perhaps in an ode to his fighter-pilot days, he can be seen in Mad Max industrial-style leather outfits with leather goggles.

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