I'm sitting in a restaurant with Montezemolo when he suddenly calls Della Valle out of the blue.

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Surrounded by a few well-edited and suggestive elements, Miller blond and blue-eyed, and boyishly handsome sits smack in the center of the store at a simple table. (He prefers to handle sales himself, and when he must be out of town, he calls his father to step in.) Walk into the store in the early-morning hours and chances are Miller will be there, sipping a coffee and poring over books of fabric suiting.

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Michael Arrington, editor of the influential blog TechCrunch, tipped the pot on a simmering controversy in September when he accused a prominent group of angel investors (whom he calls "super angels") of colluding to keep competitors out of deals and hold valuations down, partly in response to Graham's newly empowered students.

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But when the wave of terror hits too close to home, he somewhat stupidly calls out this new threat which of course makes him the next target.

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Mr Blunt, a former Army officer who was making calls to servicemen in Afghanistan, said he was shocked and distressed when he found out from police that his phone had been hacked.

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Mr Murray's self-appointed task is to reclaim the significance and status of a man whose high amateurism, as he calls it, was looking ever more out of date in an age when the pursuit of knowledge was becoming a monopoly of university departments.

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But 30 years ago, when the economy plummeted in the 1970s, he found out how dangerous it is to understaff those calls.

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