This excitement culminates half-way through the book, when J.T. lets him assume some gang duties for the day (hence the book's over-dramatic title).Mr Venkatesh soon grows nervous of getting too close, yet J.T. continues to be his best source.
The Cobbler, a movie about a magic cobbling machine that lets him assume the bodies of people whose shoes he wears (leading to a string of racist crimes), fares slightly better with a nine percent rating.
Tish was arrested once during the raid of a gay bar, but the police let him go, assuming he was a woman.
"I had $3,000 and no firm gigs," he says, adding that at one point a potential client, after telling him that he had seen Mill's negative net worth online, tried to lowball him on a job, letting him know that he assumed that Mill probably needed the money.
At the same time, if a guy wants to do nice things for you, don't automatically assume that letting him help you will automatically undermine your independence).
He first passes himself off as white at a tournament at West Point, where his Jewish coach (Silk is the only non-Jewish fighter) tells him to let everyone assume he's just another one of the boys.
APPARENTLY someone, perhaps John Kenneth Galbraith, once said that the way to debate Milton Friedman was to wait for him to say "Let us assume... ...... and then immediately interrupt and say "No, let's not assume that".
For in such a case, I am (let us assume) deliberately giving him what he wants (and wants in a free, informed and otherwise autonomous way) and deliberately benefiting him.
