July 2009
Beginner
224 pages
4h 44m
English
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Notes
Chapter 1
1. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up (New York: New Directions Publishing, 1945).
2. Michael Lee-Chin, in discussion with author at the Rotman School, Toronto, February 28, 2002.
3. Forbes 2006 List of Billionaires. Lee-Chin ranked 365 with $2.1 billion net worth, see http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/7TE8.html.
4. All monetary references in the book converted to and denominated in U.S. dollars except those contained within the quotes of a speaker.
5. Andrew Willis, “AIC’s Disadvantage: No Street Friends,” Globe and Mail, September 2, 1999.
6. Thomas C. Chamberlin, “The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses,” Science XV, no. 366 (February 7, 1890): 93.
7. Wallace Stevens, “Notes Toward an Extreme Fiction,” The Collected ...
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