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...know, just that they were men each consumed by a singular thought or idea - at least that was the case with the first part of Little Miss Sunshine. You don't see any parallels? In the case of [Robert] Kearns, here's a guy being marginalized by the Ford Motor Company and subsequently is marginalizing his own family. I suppose, if you look at Little Miss Sunshine, there was a guy who was losing his way with his family over his pursuit of a 10 Steps deal. Characters that have a real strong identification to whatever they're trying...
...Fingleton felt that Bradman used his influence to have the opener miss a tour of England, and other episodes, much debated, cemented his belief that Bradman was inclined to betray team-mates and cover his tracks. Were these grievances playing on Fingleton when he wrote The Immortal Victor Trumper, a biography of his cricketing hero? He could wait no longer than its second paragraph to proclaim: "To me, Trumper remains the greatest batsman who ever lived. Bradman could be rightly advanced against him, but whereas Bradman ... operated upon bowlers like a butcher at the abattoirs ... Trumper was like a surgeon...
Somewhere along the way, THRIFT did not just stop being a value; it became a folly. Saving was for suckers; you'd miss the ride, die leaving money on the table when you could have lived it up. There are no pockets in a shroud, as the saying goes. We once saved about 15% of our income. By the roaring '80s the rate was 4%; now we're in negative numbers. Bob Hope liked to joke that "a bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it." But that...
...lose that game in Vancouver, people don’t take it as hard because they’re not playing for their school, they’re trying to do well personally so they can move up. It’s different and it makes me miss playing at Harvard where the team atmosphere is a little better...
...came out strong right from the opening whistle,” coach Erik Farrar said. “We certainly had our chances in regulation. We missed some huge fast-break opportunities that we won’t miss again...