"It takes someone of his outsize personality and--I mean this in the best sense of the word--of his ego to pull all of it off as grandly and efficiently as he does, " says NBC's Tom Brokaw, a guest in June.

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They decided to pull the plug and write it all off, and sent a letter to Drake telling him to close down the start-up.

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It all hinges on whether Kors can continue to pull off the kind of growth in earnings that it has been able to deliver to investors during the course of its first year as a public company.

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In sum, Bangladesh's government is far from perfect, but it deserves credit for attempting to pull off something all too rare in the Muslim world: a war of ideas against Islamists.

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She discovered the hard way that, while critics are more than happy to see successful sport stars pull outrageous publicity stunts, it all goes wrong when you're perceived to be a show-off who can't back it up with results.

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Not many animals have enough charisma to pull off a wildly popular television series watched in 164 countries, but it is all in a day's work for South Africa's goofy meerkats, whose behaviour and cooperative social structure make these mongoose cousins unique.

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Fortunately for all involved, he was able to keep the car rolling long enough to pull it off the road without any injury.

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You have all of my best wishes in hoping that it is in fact you that manages to pull it off.

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