The only wrinkle this tale has to offer is a concluding sequence set in Haiti, which feels vaguely exploitive.
But a Scottish Labour grandee offers a neat concluding point.
Leapman offers a lame concluding statement that "he will continue to survive dangerously, bidding for almost anything that is going and buying some of it; hiring, firing, cajoling, telephoning, browbeating employees and politicians alike, living out of a suitcase, flying by the seat of his well-tailored pants". Much more than this is called for.
He also offers the crowd a concluding lesson in how to perform some of his tricks at home.
The essay-scoring competition that just concluded offered a mere $60,000 as a first prize, but it drew 159 teams.
Before the city council got down to business, a local pastor offered a prayer, which he concluded "in the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ".
The idea came from a post to the political site TechPresident, which offered a few statistics and concluded, "if Wikipedia changes offer any hint of what's coming, then today might be a good day to bet" on Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin.
Far too few children's stories, the actor concluded, offered a positive reflection of African Americans or other minorities.
And the Rev. William Smart, a former committee staff member who now serves as an African Methodist Episcopal minister, offered an invocation that concluded, "Lord God, let the Democrats be elected".
Elneil et al. described a series of 19 patients aged over 76 undergoing laparoscopic prolapse surgery and concluded it offered a good alternative to the vaginal approach [14].
