Sublime

Perhaps Marshall’s most striking habit was his insistence on leaving the office each day at 5:30 p.m. In an age before cell phones and email, Marshall didn’t put in a second shift late into the night once he got home. Having experienced burnout earlier in his career, he felt it was important to relax in the evening. “A man who worked himself to tat

COULDN’T RECALL THE LAST TIME I CHECKED MY TIRES’ AIR PRESSURE

fifty-five hundred members. See Ōyodo, Miyamoto, 268.

“Ueno Station,” Aoyama replays his grave spiel, “is an extraordinary machine. One of the finest-tuned timepieces in the land. In the world. And this fireproof, thiefproof office is one of the nerve centers. From this console I can access . . . nearly everything. Ueno Station is our lives, Miyake. You serve it, it serves you. It affords a timetabled

After considerable debate, they decided to accept the letter from the Russian court, falling back on the precedent established by accepting the American president’s letter.