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Rodriguez said he has seen the phenomenon in action...
...were not writing the book myself but rather as if I were serving as a subject for some intelligence which had decided to use me to write the book. If I hadn’t heard about the unconscious, I would have had to postulate one to explain this phenomenon...
Powell, we sometimes forget, is a phenomenon, a chapter from tomorrow's history books walking right in front of us. It isn't just the unique resume that demands respect; it's also the presence and the personality--the unforced authenticity and effortless sense of command while he refers to himself as just "an old Army trooper"--that stills and fills a room. Ordinary Americans know that. "There's nobody better to represent us," said Sanford Licht, 72, in Sherman Oaks, Calif. "A military guy, a minority guy. He epitomizes what goes on in America." And Powell's colleagues...
Long before Survivor and Joe Millionaire, TV critics were puzzling over the success of another TV phenomenon, THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW...
...reality Sakamoto's only sin may be that he's smarter than his rivals. By exploiting a loophole in Japan's anachronistic, anticompetitive business rules, the 62-year-old former piano salesman has built Bookoff from a single store into a 700-outlet phenomenon in only 12 years. While nationwide book sales have declined 14% over the past six years, Bookoff's formula of selling secondhand best sellers at bargain rates has been a recession-era boon. In the past fiscal year, Bookoff increased sales 20% to $179 million, making it Japan's ninth largest bookseller. "There was a demand...