"I have a rule, one that was honed by more than 30 years in high tech, " Intel's chairman, Andy Grove, once e-mailed me.

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"Knock-off shows that are lame imitations usually don't work, while innovation does, " Realityblurred.com's Andy Dehnart wrote in an e-mail.

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Some of the contents of the e-mail were first claimed in a column written by Brown's lawyer, Andy Lester, in the conservative weekly publication Human Events, and subsequently picked up by news media, but until now, the existence of a written record memorializing those claims have been unreported.

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