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#1 I met Adam Sandler when I was in my early twenties. He was known at that time as the stud man from the MTV game show Remote Control. He was an extremely original and gifted comedian. I knew that Adam was going to rule comedy one day.
#2 Judd and Charlie were roommates when they moved to Los Angeles. Judd went to USC cinema school for a year and a half, and then he...
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#1 On June 4, 1942, Wade McClusky was flying at 19,000ft in a Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless dive-bomber at the head of two squadrons of USS Enterprise dive-bombers, Scouting Six and Bombing Six. He was tasked with attacking the Japanese carrier striking force, Kido Butai.
#2 McClusky's sixth sense told him that the Japanese were not going too fast, but too slow. They must...
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Book Preview: #1 The word ordinary never left my mind, because I realized that there was no forgetting it: the word was in fact the ordinary nature of everything preceding the event. I knew that the story had come from me because no version I heard included the details I couldn't yet face.
#2 I am a writer, and I have a sense that meaning is resident in the rhythms of words and sentences....
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Book Preview: #1 When I was seven years old, I saw nine men in orange softball uniforms racing around Memorial Field, the silhouette of Charles Dickens silk-screened on their chests. They were competitors, but they never stopped laughing. I laughed harder than anyone.
#2 I remember the game well, and the beginning of my relationship with time. I wanted to watch the men forever, so...
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#1 The Yoders had a son, Adam, who was the practice's full-time office manager. He had a white towel slung over his shoulder as he made his way into the kitchen to rehydrate. His parents had gotten to know his girlfriend, Katie, fairly well as she immersed herself in the daily business of the practice.
#2 The Yoders began to divide their workweek between Mary and Bill,...
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Book Preview: #1 The city of San Francisco is bouncing down the hill, and thousands of people are looking at the crazed truck that is carrying Kesey and his friends. They are terrified of the law, and they are sitting up in plain view of thousands of already startled citizens.
#2 I knew little about Kesey at the time, other than that he was a highly regarded 31-year-old novelist and...
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Book Preview: #1 We were moving from Boise, Idaho, to Rome, Italy. I had never been to Rome, but I imagined decadence, dark brown oil paintings, and emperors in sandals. I saw a coloring book I once got for Christmas that had pictures of ancient Rome.
#2 I was a fellow at the American Academy in Rome, and was given a studio, the keys to this apartment, and $1,300 a month to live on...
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Get the Summary of Frank McCourt's Teacher Man in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Teacher Man" recounts Frank McCourt's thirty-year teaching career in New York City high schools, beginning with his first job at McKee Vocational and Technical High School on Staten Island in 1958. McCourt, an Irish immigrant, faced challenges such as scarce resources, budget constraints, and the need to assert authority in the classroom....
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Book Preview: #1 I was 14 when my stepfather died. I dropped out of high school after that and spent the year going to movies with my friends. I was into the movies, and I snacked on purses and shoplifted.
#2 My mother, who was divorced from my father, was very odd. She would ride her bicycle around our neighborhood, ignoring the stares of passersby. She was completely nonchalant...
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#1 Joseph Banks, official botanist to HM Bark Endeavour, first clapped eyes on the island of Tahiti, 17 degrees South, 149 degrees West. He had been told that this was the location of Paradise: a wonderful idea, although he did not quite believe it.
#2 When the British landed on King George the Third's Island, they were met by some hundreds of the inhabitants, who gave...
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Book Preview: #1 Jim Williams, a billionaire, lived in a mansion in Savannah, Georgia. He was not trying to fool anyone by living the way he did. He was showing visitors through the house, and one man took him aside and told him that his money was old.
#2 Jim Williams was a successful dealer in antiques and a restorer of old houses. He had been president of the Telfair Academy, the...
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Book Preview: #1 We were introduced one by one. The chairman of the department, Dr. John Harding, gave a brief history of orthopedic surgery at Mayo, and said we were lucky to be starting in orthopedics now. We were going to spend four years here, two as junior residents and two as senior residents.
#2 I was assigned to be the junior resident surgeon with Dr. Harding. I was scared...
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Book Preview: #1 There is one exception to my dislike of euphemisms for dying: the phrase I lost my father. I have always found it difficult to talk about my father's death, but the phrase I lost my father feels plain and lonely, like grief itself.
#2 The experience of loss is different for everyone. It can be the loss of a loved one, a childhood toy, a beloved cat who went outside...
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#1 On the evening of March 31, 1988, Carol Montecalvo reached into her dresser drawer for a pair of lightweight blue shorts, folded them neatly in half, and placed them inside her brown vinyl suitcase. She and her husband, Dan, were going on a trip to Hawaii.
#2 Carol, the winner of the company award, was planning the vacation with her husband. She believed that the...
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#1 There were many different groups and individuals involved in the planning and execution of Operation Anaconda, from the American generals to the Afghan soldiers who fought on the Americans' side.
#2 The author would like to thank Captain Nathan Self, the commander of A Company, 1st Ranger Battalion, for his time and assistance.
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Book Preview: #1 The climb up Lhotse was terrifying, but I was able to get over it and focus on the ropes. They turned into velvet ropes that led me toward a mysterious, exclusive nightclub.
#2 I have learned to make do with the jumar, which is an extension of me. I respect the jumar and bow to it every time I feel its steel teeth bite down on rope.
#3 At elevations like this, time...
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Book Preview: #1 I borrowed a VCR and struggled with the puzzle of plugs and cords. I pushed one tape in, and it started with Christmas in 1984. I saw a four-year-old girl in a velvet dress, her little neck swallowed by an enormous white lace collar. She had thick, straight-across bangs and braided pigtails.
#2 My father was a brilliant man who had spent his life immersed in tropical...
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#1 Rene Enriquez, better known on the streets as Boxer, was a full-fledged member of the Mexican Mafia. He had participated in at least ten murders and had personal knowledge of seven more.
#2 Boxer's criminal career was a demonstration of the lifestyle of the Mexican Mafia, which did not care if its members were caught or went to prison. They adapted and became creatures...
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#1 Stanley's luck was so good that he did not even realize how lucky he was. He had been born lucky, and he would go on to receive free tickets, a fellowship, and a bohemian loft apartment near the Chelsea Hotel.
#2 Boris's self-containment may be due in part to severe deafness. He was unable to hear what people were saying when he was young, and he feared that he might...
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