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...find a single used copy selling for $300. "I could buy it for my children, but I couldn't let them hold it," she says. So Morgan founded Purple House Press and set about acquiring the rights to republish out-of-print children's classics, such as the Mad Scientists' Clubseries. Mr. Pine's Purple House was released in the fall of 2000, along with two other books, and by June 2003, the company was doing well enough for her husband to quit his job and for the whole family to move from Texas to their dream home...
...leaders capitalized on their personal connections and infectious personalities. “When we started, it was about convincing people to do something that no one’s doing. Part of that happening was that some of us were mad crazy and had big mouths, being like ‘Yo, BMF is hot, kid!’ even when it wasn’t that hot,” Ashong says...
Gingrich, formerly known for being “Mad as Hell,” as a 1994 Time magazine cover put it, started his speech by outlining the five greatest challenges he sees on the horizon for the country: national security, the failure of math and science education, the impending growth of China and India, an aging population, and defining an American civic culture...
...were in England one time, and John was checking the world news and got mad cause they didn't give the Permian scores...
...sons and daughters, and this idea that the Red Sox are not, in essence, a baseball team but are, rather, New England-like beans, cod, the Swan Boats, a martini at the Ritz, finnan haddie at LockeOber's, the sunrise from Cadillac Mountain, the day's last run at Mad River Glen, a jog around Block Island. And now I was wondering, even as the book hit the stores, whether this last premise was being rendered wholly false by the great fame and . . . well, transcendence of the Red Sox as currently constituted. Were we losing...