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Q&A with Malcolm Gladwell

By Jeff Merron
Special to Page 2

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of the best-sellers "The Tipping Point," and "Blink." He's also a sports fan, and has plenty to say about how his latest book, "Outliers," published on Nov. 18 and No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list the past two weeks, sheds lots of light on sports. Gladwell's formula in "Outliers": pick a person, place or thing that's out of the ordinary. Tell the "conventional" story of why it is so. Then tell the story again, addi ...

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