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...many important people, had handled so many famous cases, that such a book could have been a best seller. But he was steadfast. "I won't do a book like that," he would say. He was too loyal to his clients to tell tales, too genuinely humble to brag and too idealistic to believe celebrity defined a successful legal career...
...Dongju's husband Zhang Zhanzha, 45, was elected vice chairman of the village committee last year on the strength of the family's commercial success. He did not need to campaign. The farmers here have no use for bluster or bombast. "It is not the Chinese way to brag about 'how great I am,'" says Li Xiumin. What villagers respect and what they vote for is practical achievement. "If there is no proof you can do things, the voters think you are just an empty talker, and you will never win," she says. By the time elections come round, voters...
...David Madson's, and the only publicly known evidence linking him to the last two deaths is the red Cherokee. Nonetheless, reporters located his mother, MaryAnn, in a central Illinois town and learned a little about his true identity. The Cunanans were once wealthy, as Andrew used to brag, but MaryAnn claims that in 1988 his father Modesto, a stockbroker, fled the country to avoid arrest on charges of misappropriating funds. MaryAnn Cunanan now gets food stamps. Before she stopped talking to the media, she told the Minneapolis Star Tribune, "No matter what he's done, he's my flesh...
...heard. "It's not a question of whether we can get you into the Army," she was told on her second visit, "but can the Army get into you?" The recruiters seemed more interested in enlisting her for sport sex than for service to her country. "They'd brag about all the young ladies they had slept with," she says. "They saw the young women as an added benefit of their...
...evening of March 21, there would be three bullies, not one. Nor did he know that they would be so monstrous: slamming Lenard's head against a wall, beating him into a coma and leaving him lying in an alley before going home to brag how they had taken care of the "niggers" in their neighborhood. When Lenard's father arrived at Chicago's Cook County Hospital, his boy "looked like how soldiers look after they get bombed--he looked like he fought for his life...