Word: brotherism
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...telling that to Andy Ross. The 59-year-old Californian has placed a $3.7 million bet--his house, his entire life savings and hefty loans from the bank and his brother--on conventional wisdom's being wrong. The owner since 1977 of Cody's Books, a Berkeley, Calif., institution that was tear-gassed in the '60s and bombed in 1989 in response to its commitment to sell Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, Ross has spent the past three years in the red. Rather than follow the Meg Ryan route (in the 1998 movie You've Got Mail, Ryan's character...
...still break even and we pay back the loan." That loan wasn't easy to come by. Ross says he was rejected by six banks before an independent lender, Summit Bank in Oakland, agreed to put up $1.9 million. "I had to get help from the landlord, my brother, refinance my house and use all my savings," Ross says. "We've risked everything...
...Zone (Viking; 801 pages), Waugh takes us back to the boyhood play that made them possible. Like the young Bradman, he devised a simple solo game that soldered into his technique the basics of watching the ball and a straight bat. Like Ian and Greg Chappell, he had a brother who loved cricket as much as he did, and together they played till dark on all manner of surfaces, ever desperate to outdo each other. Both Steve and Mark Waugh became players of distinction. But while Mark was the more stylish, it was Steve who retired with a Test batting...
...work 40, 50 years. We've got to learn to work hard. It's now up to us. But it sounds like you're trying to say, instead of the Establishment embracing [African Americans], I can't go there unless I'm of a certain status. That is Big Brother...
...Brother is something that's élite. At one time you had to be a certain color. Now, it's not the color; it's you gotta do this, you gotta know this, you gotta get a letter from this. And I'm doing all of this for what? To be accepted? Rule No. 2 in my book says, "Do You." But I can't Do Me if the only way to get in your organization is to Do You. I will show you kids who might not be statistically qualified but are now running $2.6 billion businesses and took...