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...Hannah MurphyI remember when I first started on the beat, it was all about these big, high-profile household names such as Richard Branson or Arianna Huffington....
...At one point, President Richard Nixon’s dirty tricksters invented a smear story about the Fed chair, Arthur Burns, and refused to retract it until Burns promised looser policy....
...There are, as both Kurt Vonnegut and Christopher Booker have written, very few stories: rags to riches, boy meets girl, unlikely hero slays dragon, and so on....
...Where was the film that could slay Todd Phillips’s ode to Martin Scorsese’s The King of Comedy in the race for the Oscars?...
...While Tversky loved to have an intellectual foe to slay, it would diminish his work with Kahneman to define it merely as a takedown of textbook economics....
...Poet David Harsent has fashioned an evocative libretto, which plays as a re-enactment of the myth in which Theseus slays the half-man, half-bull monster....
...The only candidate on Mr Rothschild’s slate to win a place was Sir Richard Gozney, a former British ambassador....
...break-in, acolytes of games such as Black Ops – the latest, billion-dollar instalment in the Call of Duty battle saga – can no longer congregate in virtual war zones to forge alliances and find enemies to slay...
...Calabria, a former aide to Alabama Senator Richard C. Shelby, the ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee....
...If Facebook is to get to the top of the heap, it must slay Google....
...Over coffee we chat about his friendship of many years with Bill Clinton, and he tells me he is also friends with Richard Branson (“very intelligent, and totally crazy....
...Richard Nixon was, as the author deliciously puts it, “a serial collector of resentments”....
...He slays Monk in a brawl, driving a cue through his erstwhile patron’s eyeball. To the victor the spoils....
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