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Three MinutesThere's much a man can learn within the confines of the RingOF THEMy father emigrated as a child with his parents from Poland. His fa­ther, Michael, worked in the South Chicago mills. When my fatherwas 12, Michael suffered a beating that sent him to Dunning, a county mental hospital. In Chicago, the name Dunning was synonymous with insane asy­lum, nuthouse, booby hatch. When I was a kid, teachers invoked it as a threat: "Keep that up and you're going to Dunning." A siren p...