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...gentleman emerges from the changing room in a suit and power tie. "At work all day there are people to manage, people I am responsible for," he begins, at last speaking in full sentences. "I come here and for an hour I am taken care of. I am told exactly what to do. I have no responsibility." The man picks up his leather briefcase and wanders out of the shop joining the crowds on the escalator to head back into the financial heart of Hong Kong - back to his big deals, back to playing the boss-man, back to being...
...Earnhardt's legend grew, so did NASCAR's popularity, and in recent years both took on a nuanced appearance. Earnhardt settled down with Teresa, and by all accounts settled down a bit on the oval too. He came to be seen as a grand, grizzled gentleman of the game, the kind of athlete you take your kid to see, so that a decade from now the kid can say he once saw Dale Earnhardt drive. Another change: Dale Jr. joined him on the circuit. "These past two years, having Junior on the track, we've all seen a marked change...
...think we should solve this the only way I know how--beer pong at the Delphic," he said. "That's, as far as I know, how gentleman's disputes are resolved at Harvard...
...Godfather Cho has done as much as anyone to burnish the image of the gentleman gangster. He has had 21 books published, mostly thinly disguised autobiographical screeds with rosy depictions of gang life. Of course, the books are pure pulp?a sample chapter heading from one 382-page tome: "Oh, Finger Cutting! Such a Bittersweet Glory"?but readers lap them up. His Son of the Fire sold 200,000 copies. Cho chopped off his own pinkie in public in 1974 after an ethnic Korean gunman from Japan shot the wife of dictator Park Chung Hee. Called danji (finger chopping...
...more worldly players can be seduced by professional charmers. He cites the case of New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming, who was targeted by an Indian bookmaker in London in 1999: "Fleming is an exceptionally intelligent, capable man, but it still took him two or three conversations with this gentleman before he recognized there was something improper about him." Fleming promptly?and properly?reported the approach to his board...