Imagine my shock when I arrived in England bursting with all that knowledge gleaned from the books I had read and from a few well-behaved British tourists I had met in my town, only to be confronted by the screaming headlines of the tabloids and pictures of scantily-clad models baring most of their assets.
And with this in mind, I was not at all surprised to read today that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick, who lost two years of his life and tens of millions of dollars when he went to prison for killing dogs, had signed a new endorsement deal with Unequal Technologies, a provider of the football pads Vick wore during most of last season.
Her face was transparent, and I could read everything in it, all her distorted thoughts.
"I read the papers but there was nothing in that at all, " he added.
I'm a bright enough guy, but all the great books I'll ever read I read in college and graduate school, and my musical tastes are straight down the middle: Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Mostly Mozart, the Brandenburgs, a little cool jazz, a few show tunes.
So my cubicle neighbor, Dikenta Dike and I sat down to read through all the pledge letters sent in by the billionaires and nearly-billionaires that have agreed to do just that.
The NCAA would have one believe that Division II athletic spending is rising no more than total institutional expenditures, which seems dubious to me as I read the data, although admittedly there was a spending spree in all of higher education in most of the period under discussion.
FORBES: The College Athletic Cost Explosion Spreads to Divisions II & III
As I look back on all of the ventures I have watched, heard of, read about or participated in, one common entrepreneurial trait keeps showing up as the key to success (or failure): That trait is TENACITY (or lack thereof).
FORBES: Question: How Many Obstacles Must You Overcome To Succeed? Answer: ALL Of Them!
In every one of these conflicts I went to, it's all about resources, and you just had me read a passage from Sudan.
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