David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

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times when you need to slow down, and
you don’t want to show the examiner by
your change of pace that this is
something that you need time on. So—
when were you born?” He spoke
carefully and deliberately. “‘It...was...
1941.’ You don’t say,
‘ItwasMarcheleventh1941atsix-
thirtyinthemorning,’ even though you’re
not trying to hide it. You want your
response to be the same for the easy
things as for the harder things so that you
don’t reveal what’s easy and what’s
hard by the way you answer.”
When Blankenhorn paused just a bit
too much in certain crucial moments,
Boies caught it. “It was tone and pace
and the words he used. Some of it comes

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