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...many to keep track of? Or has Google created a system that can handle it all? So far, it has managed to innovate fast enough to justify all the hiring and, arguably, even the sky-high share price. And along the way, a lot of people have become very rich. (Brin and Page are probably worth about $10 billion apiece.) But the annals of Wall Street are littered with tales of brilliant founders who created successful companies, then branched into too many areas, only to see it all come crumbling down or, just as bad, to see new guys...
...quality piece of literature by any stretch of the imagination, but it is exactly what it was meant to be: a predictable, easy-to-read novel that gives women a hero who is not quite Mr. Darcy—ok, not even close—but is still rich enough, and with good enough taste in wine, to make things a bit interesting...
...does not read romance novels expecting great literature, and fittingly, most of the characters in this book are simplistic and one-dimensional. Steven Hudson is rich, handsome, cultured, nice, and boring. Jessie Jones is beautiful, well-dressed, successful, and confident. They are the obvious “good guys...
...second floor of the library. “The whole house shook. I went downstairs and the room was filled with smoke. It was hard to breathe.” Although the building, officially dubbed the John Hicks House, now serves as a House library, it has a rich history. Erected in 1762, it is the oldest house in Cambridge, according to Kirkland House Master Tom Conley. A stone plaque outside the building states that the library was once Revolutionary War general Israel Putnam’s army office. Palmer, who had just finished a vodka-tasting dinner with...
That life implodes when Haller is retained by Louis Ross Roulet, a rich realtor accused of violently beating up a call girl. Appearances are deceptive, and as Haller probes deeper, he suddenly finds that he must play the unusual role of upholding justice. He is a ruthless defense attorney who must be the hero, and Haller courageously rises to the occasion even as a savage, only-in-LA sociopath threatens to destroy him and his loved ones...