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If you run a country and want to put it on the global map you don't have so many choices. You can get the Olympics, the World Cup or a Formula One race. And the first two are only every four years - and you have them only once.
Martin Sorrell
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Martin Sorrell
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: February 14
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