"For a guy like me to be very eccentric, to even go to extremes to write a children's book with all the wild things I do and make it believable was pretty much incredible, " Rodman said.

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They could recognize evil -- pulling a son from a German boarding school when the Nazis began their rise to power, and fervently advocating the Allied cause before Pearl Harbor -- and were too sensible to go to extremes.

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Even in high school, I had to tell my girlfriends, to go find someone else, because I would not go to certain extremes.

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Some people go to such extremes, suggesting Andy can only win Wimbledon if he serve-volleys three times per game and uses the chip-and-charge at every opportunity, but that's not his game.

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We're hearing irregular rhythms, we're hearing instruments asked to go to the extremes of their capability, but we're also hearing patterns that we recognize, with pacing, contrast, fascinating harmonies, continuity all the basic principles of what makes a piece of music work are all there.

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He did not anticipate the extremes the party would go to, or their blatant obstructionism.

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"I wouldn't buy it here, but I wouldn't short it either, " says Garren, noting the extremes to which biotechs can go on the upside and the downside.

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If we go back to an environment like the 1970s, it may be difficult for any manager to navigate those extremes, but these managers have done well with the recent changes.

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