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> is to find something interesting about them. If you manage to do that, then you might just have a new friend, and not just another business card.

Well put. From a recent NYTimes

"With the exception of his time at Oxford, Haden has spent his entire adult life as the guy everybody knows as soon as he walks into the room. His friends say Haden’s gift is that he leaves knowing everybody else’s stories.

“He has such compassion and humility,” said J. K. McKay, who caught Haden’s passes at Bishop Amat High in La Puente, Calif., east of Los Angeles, and at U.S.C., where they were coached by McKay’s father, John."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/sports/23haden.html?_r=1&#...