Emmanuel Besnier may be a hard man to track down in person, but his fortune is slightly easier to trace.

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The rural living and the hard work would bring the man back to health, so the job would be like granting a favor.

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But by adding a hard drive to the TV, broadcast programs can be stored until users want to view them -- essentially a poor man's video-on-demand.

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Brecht could hardly have imagined such a document: a capitalist enterprise that feeds on the misery of man trying as hard as it can to be sure that nothing is done to decrease that misery.

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