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« Qu’on parle de moi en bien ou en mal… » : le triomphe du sensationnalisme
Victor Ferry • 12 leçons de rhétorique pour prendre pouvoir: Mettez vos idées en discours et votre public en mouvement (French Edition)
stand lead-footed, watching the ball skid low, graze the inside of the line on its way to set the chain-link fence into song.
Abraham Verghese • The Tennis Partner: A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss
The problem wasn’t natural gas. It was excessive regulation. Every time Clark had to give a pig an antibiotic shot, the law now required that he have a veterinarian write a prescription. That was fifty dollars per farm call, plus the cost of the medication. What really burned Clark up, however, wasn’t just the cost of the vet; it was the fact that
... See moreEliza Griswold • Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
Death Comes to Happy Valley: Penn State and the Tragic Legacy of Joe Paterno (Kindle Single)
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Frank Donovan, a lifetime close friend and a lawyer from Detroit. He was known among his friends and clients as a brilliant legal analyst with a nonaggressive temperament. No litigator. When we were both twenty, I remember him saying: "When there's a fight, I pick up my hat and go home." He had a large head, somewhat out of proportion to his medium
... See moreJohn McDonald • A Ghost's Memoir: The Making of Alfred P. Sloan's My Years with General Motors (The MIT Press)
The Friday Night Solution
Jeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture
Treat the Disease, Not the Symptom