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What is something that serves as an emotional need? It depends on the person. For example, expensive athletic shoes like Nikes - the right style or model - are totally superfluous and over-priced, but kids who don't have the right kind of shoe face potential ostracism from their peers. I'm not arguing that everyone should go out and buy their kids $120 Nikes, I'm just saying that there is a social pressure - a sense of need. A kid who has those shoes may feel better about himself than if he didn't have them...
Sports has a proud history of producing self-serving, cliché-ridden memoirs. But by sharing an unvarnished, at times inspiring story in an arresting, muscular style, Agassi may have just penned one of the best sports autobiographies of all time. Check--it's one of the better memoirs out there, period...
...truth is, he and Betsy plan quite a bit. The banter and exact style of delivery may be unscripted, but the events, the encounters, the twists in plot—all of that is preplanned. The world of the Friday night game is the mythical Kingdom of Jynaria. Jynaria is peaceful, gourd shaped, and populated by dwarves to the north and humans to the south...
...style is very traditional without being too formal,” Mankiw says. “We have some mementos, like old family heirlooms and photographs, mixed with more modern pieces like guitars. I fool around with the guitar myself...
...fearlessness that not infrequently borders on the suicidally reckless. He rarely keeps to agreed party lines, recently incurring the wrath of Conservative leader David Cameron by going dramatically off-message on the party's European Union policy last month, provoking a Cameron aide to send him a Mafia-style text message: "La vendetta è un piatto che va mangiato freddo," or "Revenge is a dish best eaten cold." Johnson, using the florid turn of phrase that is his hallmark, continues to insist his relationship with Cameron is one of "glutinous harmony." (Read "David Cameron: The U.K.'s Next Leader...