"I think I'll be very well rested when I come back, " Jeter said at first.

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Forging those sorts of relationships means combing scads of data, every day, without fail: "When I come in I usually spend the first half an hour getting caught up on who got a promotion, who lost a loved one, whose kid won an award, " says Cook.

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"I have a track record of getting things when they first come out, " O'Day said.

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"When I hear that young people have come to the theater for the first time to listen to opera, I'm very happy, " Bocelli says.

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Here are the first four things that come to mind, when folks ask me what I learned.

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The first question I ask people when they say college athletes should be paid is: where is the money going to come from?

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