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In This Corner . . .: If Sugar Ray Leonard had his way, Saddam Hussein and George Bush would settle their differences in the boxing ring. While training for a February bout in New York, Leonard suggested the two leaders go eight rounds on the canvas battlefield: “I really wish that world issues could be resolved by two guys getting in the ring and kicking ass.”

Unsuited: Reza Pahlavi, 30, the son of the late shah of Iran, broke into tears Thursday when a federal judge in Alexandria, Va., threw out a suit by a former bodyguard. Ali Haydar Shahbazi, 58, said Pahlavi had fired him two years ago even though Pahlavi had made a traditional Islamic pledge to care for servants for life. A Pahlavi attorney said the suit was a simple shakedown; the former crown prince said he ran out of money. Shahbazi and the shah’s family fled the Iran revolution of 1979.

Bank Statement: A celebrity New York fashion designer is using gas masks slung over the shoulder in his spring collection of “war fashions.” “The ‘90s are going to be remembered for the military and the gulf crisis,” gushed designer Andre Van Pier, 29, in New York. “The trend has begun.” Van Pier last week extended his reputation for expensive celebrity clothing with a pricey camouflage collection lined in gold silk and worn with high-heel pumps and costing $400 to $4,000. “I wouldn’t think I’ll be making money off of the war. I will be making a statement,” Van Pier said.

Prized: Nicholas Mosley, 67, son of 1930s fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, won Britain’s richest literary prize last week for his novel “Hopeful Monsters.” Mosley collected the $43,550 Whitbread award for a novel about an English student growing up in Berlin’s radical political circles during the 1920s and 1930s. His other works include “Assassins” and “The Assassination of Trotsky.”