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...predominantly black San Francisco neighborhood. The youngster stands up to the ghetto's bullies and his Caucasian stepmother, who imposes a harsh Americanization regimen that bans Chinese language and customs. Out of these fresh and dramatic materials Lee fashioned a winning novel, and after this successful debut, he quit his day job as an attorney to write full time...
Ramifications of his joyride: I haven't gotten in trouble yet. They don't know yet. They could fire me, but I already quit...
...quit: I think they're trying to get rid of student drivers--they want to get rid of the radios...
Music: Why Sinatra just won't quit...
...months later in 1987, Scott quit his law-firm job, founded a company he called Columbia Hospital Corp. and started to buy individual hospitals for a living. Within five years, he and his investment partners raised enough money to buy 38 of them, scattered from El Paso, Texas, to Miami, acquiring along the way an enviable reputation for delivering high-quality care with low operating costs. Last September, in a $4.3 billion deal, he took over the 71 Humana hospitals. Last month, with particular satisfaction, Scott changed the name of his firm to Columbia/HCA Healthcare, having just completed...