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I asked my Greek chorus about this sort of hero: the Underappreciated Personification of Resolve.

can I tell you something...? I don't think you're in love with the past. I think you're scared of the future.

I propose three models—archetypes if you like—that comprise the dimensions of a chivalrous gentleman's character: the warrior, the lover, and the monk.

weekend at bernie's is not a realistic movie

Chris Brown, a software-development manager at the time.

resonance. "We had a key decision to make," he says. "Was distribution a commodity or was it a core competency?

saw D. E. Shaw as a highly secretive hedge fund, the firm viewed

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When I read that letter, I thought, we don't make money when we sell things. We make money when we help customers make purchase decisions."5

Jeff didn't believe in work-life balance," says Kim Rachmeler. "He believed in work-life harmony. I guess the idea is you might be able to do everything all at once.

that either-or mentality, that if you are doing something good for customers it must be bad for shareholders, is very amatuerish

She complied while yet another dark-suited man in sunglasses frisked her with so much enthusiasm Kat almost asked for a penicillin shot.

An hour later—or maybe it was only twenty minutes—Myron collapsed and rolled onto his back.

Liz Gorman, a fiery redhead, had been one of the founding members of the Raven Brigade.

known what she'd say. "What sort of carpet?" "Orange shag. That's where Mercer fell

Again: Myron Bolitar, Master of Deduction. If you prick him, does he not bleed? He

Tragedy sort of works this way: Once it snakes it's way in, it cuts down all your defenses and allows it's brethren easy access to feed.

Two metallic swivel stools were painted red on the base, looking about as inviting as rectal thermometers.

There's a Shakespeare quote," she said. "From Hamlet. He says that death is—and I think I have the quote right—an undiscovered country from whose borne no traveler returns." He

I frowned. "Don't you guys have a steroid needle that needs an ass cheek?" Their

The crickets were incessant and plenteous, their swarming tune as monotonous as a Mariah Carey CD, though not quite as grating.

Big Cyndi crossed the room with an agility that belied the bulk. She wrapped me in an embrace that made me feel as if I'd been mummified in wet attic insulation. In a good way.

The simple Francis Bacon axiom, one we constantly stressed to our students, applied here: Knowledge is power. Benedict