The New Yorker, 2007-10-29
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fiefoe"The Mission" / Ryan Lizza
__ If B.C.G. was like an ivory tower, Bain was a trade school. The tradition best exemplified by McKinsey..., had consultants acting like pollinating bees, moving valuable information from one company to another, even within the same industry.
Steve Martin: the charm of a well-spoken cynic
'Yummy Yummy Yummy (I got love in my tummy)'; Dalton Trumbo of 'Roman Holiday'
"The Extortionist" / Ben McGrath
__ Boras represents sixty-five major-league players and about the same number of minor-league prospects, nearly all of whom he is apt to describe, at one time or another, as “special,” “unique,” “out of the box,” “once in a decade,” or, in the recent case of Alex Rodriguez, “IPN” (pronoun “eye-pin”), which is short for Iconic magnetism, historic Performance, and Network value.
"Extreme Chocolate" / Bill Buford
__ Above all, Thoreau cherished his manly self-sufficiency (even though he carried his dirty laundry to Concord for his mother to wash)
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__ If B.C.G. was like an ivory tower, Bain was a trade school. The tradition best exemplified by McKinsey..., had consultants acting like pollinating bees, moving valuable information from one company to another, even within the same industry.
Steve Martin: the charm of a well-spoken cynic
'Yummy Yummy Yummy (I got love in my tummy)'; Dalton Trumbo of 'Roman Holiday'
"The Extortionist" / Ben McGrath
__ Boras represents sixty-five major-league players and about the same number of minor-league prospects, nearly all of whom he is apt to describe, at one time or another, as “special,” “unique,” “out of the box,” “once in a decade,” or, in the recent case of Alex Rodriguez, “IPN” (pronoun “eye-pin”), which is short for Iconic magnetism, historic Performance, and Network value.
"Extreme Chocolate" / Bill Buford
- He illustrated with his hand how a breast flattens when a woman lies down. "That's my flavor curve. You... move up her body, climbing slowly, rising up the flattened curve of the breast, gently, and the nipple pops out suddenly... Then you slide down, an elegant finish."
- Three beans bought you a fresh avocado, one an overripe one.
- (In London,) two private clubs, White's and the Garrick, got their start as chocolate houses.
- The inside (of a pod) was creamy wet. It smelled of honey and orange and perfume.
- Miel de cacao keeps for no more than a day. You never see it outside the twenty-twenty zone. In Bahia, it is a specialty, drunk in the shade of the trees that made it.
- (Wild tobacco): the most effective natural insecticide in the world.
- Cacao contains, unusually, not one alkaloid but several, including caffeine. It has more than five hundred other chemical compounds, also mainly defensive in purpose.
__ Above all, Thoreau cherished his manly self-sufficiency (even though he carried his dirty laundry to Concord for his mother to wash)
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