"It's silly because I don't want to be a slave to marketing but it really got into my head, " said Ms. Daniels, who recently switched to the Samsung phone from an older iPhone.

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The two men -- master and slave -- hadn't seen each other in more than a decade.

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He says Kashkari worked like a slave, often even on projects he wasn't directly overseeing.

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