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Is it luck?
My wife’s ability to secure prime parking spots is extremely annoying. She will land a great spot no matter how busy the area where she is parking and will smugly proclaim: “I’m so lucky!” She can drive to within a minutes’ walk of her chosen destination and almost always find a plumb spot. I seldom…
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Getting Lucky
Before directing and producing movies including Invictus, Million Dollar Baby, Sully and American Sniper, Clint Eastwood was a Hollywood star and Oscar nominee in his own right. In his 1971 film Dirty Harry, where he plays Harry Callahan, a cop who doesn’t follow the rules, he has a bad guy on the ground and has…
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Brands that are boxing above their weight
South African brands are boxing above their weight everywhere and it’s apparent from mails I have received from many of you. With his permission I have published an extract from UK-based Ryno Strydom to emphasise the point… “After I recently, very nostalgically, read Tony Jackman from the Daily Maverick’s “Ode to the humble…
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Genius: The podcast series
The world is suddenly less certain than it might have appeared to be five years ago. Global uncertainties abound. Economies everywhere are under pressure as central banks scramble to contain the most serious inflationary pressures in decades. Geopolitical tensions have risen since the Russian invasion of Ukraine and new power blocs are being formed that…
