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...faint hearts. Artyom Tarasov, one of Russia's first post-communist millionaires, recalled how quickly business disputes could turn into something much nastier when he described an incident from 1992 at the Club Volodya Cemago in Moscow. "A number of gangsters turned up that day with a clear mission: extract several million dollars from me or, failing that, kidnap me," he said. A veritable army then emerged from both sides - 30 to 40 men. "Given that all were armed to the teeth, it was only a matter of minutes before they started shooting," continued Tarasov, "It was just like...
...From the start, Samuels makes it clear that his mission is to show what has happened to us, the generation raised long after the optimism of the ’60s has waned. According to Samuels, we are like children, scared and ignorant of what makes our world work. We all want or need to submit to a higher authority...
...first mission, we were lost within minutes...
...Doctors and specialists do a lot of work in hospitals and go around to work in clinics,” he said. “There is a potential for harm, and it could be dangerous, but you just have a different mission than others...
...popular books as part of my scholarly mission,” Pinker said. “There is a niche for someone who can integrate and summarize an entire field, even for people in the field itself...