Robert Kidder , Miles Marsh and Michael Miles --are holdovers from the board of Dean Witter Discover, where Purcell was chief executive when he engineered the purchase of Morgan Stanley in 1997.

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Besides those mentioned in the text, the author would like to thank: Paul Adamson, Andrew Belfer, Steve Braverman, Dick Costolo, Clive Crook, Sulaiman al-Hattlan, Mazen Hayek, Kathrin Hille, Jonathan Hova, Ronald Howes, Mishal Kanoo, Jonathan Kempner, Glenn Hubbard, Andrew Likierman, Iyad Males, Ed Merchant, Arif Naqvi, Ahmed Nassef, Sooud al-Qassemi, Jesse Scott, Michael Sonnenfeldt, Miles Varn, Evan Williams, Tarik Youssef, and several others who must remain nameless.

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Michael Reese Hospital (PDF), about 5 miles from the scene of Turner's shooting, closed in 2009.

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Last year, at Texas Motor Speedway, Michael McDowell hit an oil slick, slammed head first into the wall at a hundred and eighty miles per hour, flipped over and over, leaving much of his car in pieces on the track, and, when the vehicle finally came to a stop, crawled out of the wreckage and walked away.

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