| This is a portrait of rags-to-riches Fred Kavli whose abiding passion is the science of tomorrow. |
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| From the moment she had her rags-to-riches moment on Télé Dimanche, the Mireille Mathieu legend was born. |
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| The amalgam of American idealism and rags-to-riches dreams is irresistible. |
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| A tour of the Hermitage today includes the thrilling rags-to-riches story of a gallant frontiersman, chivalrous romantic, and political reformer. |
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| The life of Sir William Randal Cremer is something of a rags-to-riches story. |
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| The ballet tells the rags-to-riches tale of a mild-mannered bootmaker named Will Mossop. |
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| So a champion might be sitting undiscovered among those unfancied horses, the great rags-to-riches story so loved in racing. |
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| Jean Chretien is an outsider, an arriviste, and a rags-to-riches political scrapper. |
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| We are looking forward to portraits of millionaires and investment gurus, as well as fictional rags-to-riches stories and animations which explain the complexities of the financial market in an entertaining way. |
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| It tells the eccentric rags-to-riches, and sometimes riches-to-rags, stories of people who have caught the ultimate lucky break. |
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| Decent jobs are scarce and rags-to-riches stories like Wasswa's are even scarcer. |
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| Mr. Villar, a property tycoon, focused on his rags-to-riches story, but his image was reportedly tarnished by corruption allegations. |
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| It happens that Alger's rags-to-riches heroes were the type of achievers who had their eyes fixed on material success. |
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| What shifts popcorn is escapism and heroism: rags-to-riches, rise-and-fall, fantasy and superheroes. |
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| Up from Slavery is a compelling literary event because Washington successfully weds his rags-to-riches story with narratives of racial conciliation and uplift. |
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| His is the classic immigrant rags-to-riches tale of that much-sought fantasy, the American Dream. |
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| Does that increasing skill set make up for the diminishment of a rags-to-riches mythology? |
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| The curious appeal of the rags-to-riches writer. |
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| Many games follow a rags-to-riches storyline, for example. |
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| What's sweeter than a rags-to-riches story? |
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| Clumsy and garish, Steve Antin's rags-to-riches fairytale cannot muster a single sequin of originality. |
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| Few rags-to-riches stories can match that of 50 Cent's rise to fame, stardom and power. |
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| She is, after all, the rags-to-riches girl who grew up on a Camden council estate and was branded a chav by the media the minute her star began to rise. |
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| If he had already been a diamond or a prince when he walked on stage, the audience wouldn't have cheered half so loudly. In other words, Mr Potts had to be unprepossessing for his rags-to-riches story to have any power. |
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| The rags-to-riches millionaire, who is still only 34, runs Manchester-based clothing empire Joe Bloggs. |
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| Of course, this is the kind of rags-to-riches escapism that we can depend on. |
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| The president claims his brother's rags-to-riches saga inspired him to run for office. |
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| Travelling over to Northern Ireland, he untangles a tale of rags-to-riches and learns that sure enough, his family were indeed story-tellers. |
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| Set towards the end of the 19th century, this lavish saga tells the story of her rags-to-riches transformation following her employment at The Paradise department store. |
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