Sublime

Shortly before the Hammonds’ arrival the building’s East Portico had been the scene of an assassination attempt against President Andrew Jackson. The assailant was named Richard Lawrence, who believed himself to be England’s long-dead King Richard III and claimed that Jackson had interfered with the delivery of payments long owed to him by the colo

And Sukarno was not surprised—he had known all along that Adams would do a far better job with his memoirs than any “serious” journalist.

groups depended on personalised relationships in which individuals are mutually committed to each other by a form of trust, reciprocity and obligation.

Johnson had certain characteristics that no leader of a Great Group is without. He loved excellence, and, as a result, he had an unerring eye for talent. And because he understood why talented people work, he was able to create an environment in which they thrived.

he refused to break the clause in his trust deed that stipulated that no benefactor should be privy to the investments of the family trust.

He for his own part knew that if his personal prospects simply had been concerned, he would not have cared a rotten nut for the banker’s friendship or enmity. What he really cared for was a medium for his work, a vehicle for his ideas; and after all, was he not bound to prefer the object of getting a good hospital, where he could demonstrate the sp