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Then there was the sheer confidence that came from just being sent out as his father's surrogate. "Have you ever worked for your dad and been good at it?" asks a veteran of that campaign. "It gives me goose bumps to think about it. He was just extremely happy. Inside, he was working with his dad, if not as a peer, then an adult; and on the outside, he was giving speeches. He saw the reaction. He was a real success." When he left, he told an associate that it had been the best 18 months of his life...
...have become responsible: they've raised children, gotten careers, become leaders. That's why he ran for governor of Texas, Bush tells us. It's a colossally arrogant idea - that running a huge state should be some form of personal therapy - and yet, again, he pulls it off through sheer uncomplicated amiability...
...lawyers were awarded $8.5 million in fees, which was taken directly from customers' bank accounts. One class-action member discovered that $91.33 in legal fees had been deducted from his account--although he received only $2.19 in interest from the settlement award. Even in more traditional fee arrangements, the sheer size of some damage awards can mean that lawyers end up pocketing gargantuan amounts. Fees in nationwide tobacco litigation, for example, could top $30 billion. That's money that could be going to address the underlying problems at which the lawsuits were aimed...
...that is home to himself, five assistants and three dogs, he ventures out among the sloughs and sandbars to battle a rising tide of trash and fill the small flotilla of rusting barges that he pushes upstream with the help of passing tugboats, a clutch of corporate sponsors and sheer willpower...
...from 2,000. His bosses at NIH were so pleased that they rushed to patent them, only to set off a firestorm. Watson, then head of NIH's part of the Human Genome Project (another part is under the Department of Energy), denounced the move as "sheer lunacy" that would cause paralyzing legal battles. When the dust settled, NIH had withdrawn its patent proposal, Watson had quit the genome project, and Venter and Fraser, a former graduate student at Buffalo whom he had married after splitting with his first wife, were off running their own center, The Institute for Genomic...